Phase II final report on an intelligent tutoring system for teaching battlefield command reasoning skills / Eric A. Domeshek.

Format:

Book

Government document

Author/Creator:

Domeshek, Eric A.

Contributor:

U.S. Army Research Institute for the Behavioral and Social Sciences

Series:

Technical report (U.S. Army Research Institute for the Behavioral and Social Sciences) ; 1143.

Technical report ; 1143

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Command and control systems--United States.

Command and control systems.

Soldiers--Training of--United States.

Soldiers.

Intelligent tutoring systems--United States.

Intelligent tutoring systems.

Reasoning--Study and teaching.

Reasoning.

Soldiers--Training of.

United States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource ([192] pages)

Place of Publication:

Alexandria, VA : U.S. Army Research Institute for the Behavioral and Social Sciences, [2004]

Summary:

This report documents Phase II efforts to develop a Socratic Intelligent Tutoring System (ITS) for Teaching Battlefield Command Reasoning Skills. The ultimate goal of this research program is to develop new ITS techniques and technology for teaching skills that cannot be taught as simple methods and procedures to be followed. Achieving expert levels of proficiency in professional-level reasoning skills-whether for battlefield commanders or for professionals in a wide range of other fields-requires extensive practice, coaching, and feedback. Students must be given a chance to drill on detailed and situation-specific knowledge, as well as high-level thinking habits and skills applicable across diverse situations. We studied exemplary coaching by observing tutoring sessions centered on Tactical Decision Games. We analyzed those sessions to identify behaviors that could be enacted and controlled by an automated Socratic tutor. We explored techniques and ultimately built an operational prototype exhibiting many of the key behaviors identified. We also built extensive tools to support authoring of the prototype's knowledge and behavior. This work has produced extensive data, analysis, and implementation, advancing our understanding of, and ability to model, professional-level Socratic tutoring.

Notes:

Title from title screen (viewed March 31, 2009).

"March 2004."

Includes bibliographical references (pages 103-104).

Other Format:

Domeshek, Eric A. Phase II final report on an intelligent tutoring system for teaching battlefield command reasoning skills

OCLC:

318059756