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Scalability in Instructional Method Specification: An Experiment-Directed Approach

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Automating Instructional Design: Computer-Based Development and Delivery Tools

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An intelligent tutoring system (ITS) is, in principle, well suited for instructional experimentation as an automated environment which allows for controlled variation of variables. These variables, aspects of the instructional and domain models, can be varied by replacing parts representing these aspects by other parts. However, if ITSs are to be used as vehicles for instructional experimentation the architecture, the knowledge representation, and the authoring environment should fulfil additional requirements. This chapter discusses the requirements for experimentation-directed ITSs, the shell for ITS development and the scalable instructional method specification (SIMS) paradigm.

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  1. School of Education and Department of Computer Science, University of Twente, P. O. Box 217, 7500 AE, Enschede, The Netherlands

    Hein P. M. Krammer, Jan Bosch & Sanne Dijkstra

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  1. Learning and Cognition, Department of Educational Psychology, University of Minnesota, 178 Pillsbury Drive S. E., Minneapolis, MN, 55455, USA

    Robert D. Tennyson

  2. College of Education, EDU208B, University of South Florida, 4202 E. Fowler Ave., Tampa, FL, 33620, USA

    Ann E. Barron

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Krammer, H.P.M., Bosch, J., Dijkstra, S. (1995). Scalability in Instructional Method Specification: An Experiment-Directed Approach. In: Tennyson, R.D., Barron, A.E. (eds) Automating Instructional Design: Computer-Based Development and Delivery Tools. NATO ASI Series, vol 140. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-57821-2_9

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