ABSTRACT
In this chapter, we present the complete transcript for tutoringthe Direct Response from one human keyboard-to-keyboard tu-toring session (K72, November 14, 1999). We describe what is happening in the tutoring interaction, and how and why the tutor made each decision. The session selected was one in which Joel Michael was the tutor. It is one of the later sessions in our studies and thus exemplifies the approach to tutoring that developed over the duration of the CIRCSIM-Tutor project and which has been embodied in CIRCSIM-Tutor. An earlier transcript would undoubtedly show some significant differences in the approach to tutoring being pursued. The tutors’ participation in all phases of the CIRCSIM-Tutor project demonstrably resulted in changes in their approach to tutoring. The session chosen is particularly rich in issues raised by the student’s performance, and the tactics and the approaches that the tutor took in response to student errors. But no single tutoring session can ever contain examples of all of the strategies and tactics that have been described in the preceding chapters.
