Principles of building intelligent tutoring systems for secondary education

Abstract

The article describes an approach to creating intelligent tutoring systems using a geometry tutoring system as an example. The proposed approach assumes two modes of interacting with the system – theory tutoring and problem solving methods tutoring. The theory tutoring component allows the student to learn the material, obtain answers to various questions, and test their knowledge. In the problem-solving methods tutoring mode, the system performs a step-by-step solution checking, and provides the necessary support by answering the student’s questions. This approach enables the system to store the knowledge necessary for solving problems in a formalized manner, to answer questions about the methods for solving a problem in the course of its solution, and to provide for wholistic tutoring of the theoretical concepts, including knowledge testing, which distinguishes it from other contemporary systems.