Abbass el Sharif; Ramzi A. Haraty
Description:
In this paper, we present a case in which weintegrated an intelligent tutoring system- ITS- in a basicmathematics course. The proposed ITS –PrivateTutor- isdynamic, web-based, adaptive, and interactive. It iscomposed of six different modules; each has a distinctfunction: student, domain, question, communication, expert,and controller modules. The purpose of this system is not toeliminate the role of human teachers, but to complementtheir effort in reaching all students and having one-to-onetutoring approach instead one-to-many. An experiment wasconducted in order to study the effectiveness ofPrivateTutor on class achievement. Students who wereenrolled in a “Basic Mathematics” course in the Fall of2005-2006 and Spring of 2006 at the Lebanese AmericanUniversity were randomly assigned to two groups: controland treatment. The experimental results failed to show anysignificant positive effect.