Team tutoring systems: reifying roles in problem solving

  • Authors:
  • Mark K. Singley;Peter G. Fairweather;Steven Swerling

  • Affiliations:
  • IBM T. J. Watson Research Center;IBM T. J. Watson Research Center;IBM T. J. Watson Research Center

  • Venue:
  • CSCL '99 Proceedings of the 1999 conference on Computer support for collaborative learning
  • Year:
  • 1999

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Abstract

We are pursuing the notion of a Team Tutoring System, an intelligent tutoring system that monitors and manages teams of students as they collaborate synchronously and remotely to solve extended, distributed, multi-step problems. Our system, named Algebra Jam, provides opportunities for each team member to take on a variety of roles in order to come to know the domain from a variety of perspectives. To do this, we are defining a typology of collaborative problem solving roles, reifying these roles at the problem solving interface, and accumulating evidence about individual behavior and group problem solving performance in a Bayesian inference network.