Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society

This paper describes a prototype of a simulated physics student that learns by interacting with a human tutor. The system solves physics problems while showing its work on a workstation screen, and the tutor can intervene at certain points during problem-solving to advise the simulated student This prototype constitutes an initial cognitive task analysis of the skill of learning from a tutor, which prescribes several tutoring practices that appear to be plausible for both human and computer tutors.