Content

Content and tutorial logic in ordinary tutoring systems are highly interdependent.  The way instruction and test items are sequenced depends heavily on specifics of the content.   Each tutorial involves its own logic, logic that must be tailored to meet idiosyncratic needs of the content to be learned.   

TutorIT represents a fundamental advance in the cognitive and instructional sciences, making it possible for the first time to COMPLETELY separate tutorial logic from content.  TutorIT is a truly general purpose tutoring system.  It can be used with essentially ANY content.  

Not only does TutorIT work with any content, but it can deliver that content in essentially any number of ways.  TutorIT can be customized (by simply filling in a dialog).  The author defines tutor options that are to be made available to the learner: diagnosis, instruction, adaptive, practice or learner controlled.  More specifically, TutorIT can be configured as a highly precise diagnostic instrument, to pinpoint what learners do and do not know about given content.  TutorIT also can be configured to provide highly prescriptive instruction, or it can be configured as an optimized highly adaptive tutorial, which can efficiently pinpoint what a learner does and does not know, providing needed instruction only when and where it is needed.  

The learner chooses how he or she wishes to learn the material from the options defined by the author.

Currently available content includes:

• [FREE] Sample Content (e.g., Column Subtraction, Simple Railroad Crossing Model, Miniature Arithmetic Curriculum) is for illustrative purposes only.  Sample content is designed to demonstrate the way diagnosis and instruction work together to produce highly optimized tutorials.  They do not begin to tap the true power of the AuthorIT system with which it was developed, including the use of multi-media rich systems (e.g., using Macromedia's Flash player).

• Whole number Arithmetic includes a choice of diagnosis, instruction and adaptive tutoring on basic the basic computational algorithms: Column Addition, Column Subtraction, Multiplication and Long Division.  It also includes highly efficient instruction and practice on addition, subtraction, multiplication and division facts.

• Mathematical Processes includes tutorials on:

  • Detecting regularities

  • Constructing examples

  • Understanding mathematical descriptions

  • Constructing mathematical descriptions

  • Logical deduction

  • Axiomatization (i.e., identifying fundamental assumptions)

• [FREE to Authors] AuthorIT tutorials provide detailed instruction on how to use AuthorIT to construct TutorIT tutorials for procedural, declarative, model-based and other knowledge.

This sample content is only illustrative of what can be developed with AuthorIT.  It does not begin to tap the true power of the AuthorIT system with which it was developed, including the use of multi-media rich  systems (e.g., using Macromedia's Flash reader). 

To get started, all you have to do is click on TutorIT under Installation to install TutorIT.  Once TutorIT is installed, you can order and install any and all of the above content packages. 

* Money Back Guarantee:  If a child completes Whole Number Arithmetic and does not improve his or her whole number arithmetic skills  to your satisfaction, simply tell us what you found to be inadequate and we will gladly refund your money.