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Student 23 from an Electricity and Electronics Tutoring Corpus

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Situation: A tutor is teaching algebra to one student.

Participants: Tutor and student.

Acknowledgment: This dialogue is taken from the Circle Archive, maintained by Kurt VanLehn. This particular dialogue is from Basic Electricity and Electronics 1 , one of six corpora of tutoring.

Web Access to the Source: The entire set of corpora can be accessed at http://www.pitt.edu/~circle/Archive.htm. This corpus can be accessed here: http://www.pitt.edu/~circle/Archive/BEE1.htm

Features of this dialogue: The dialogue is notable for the very large number of uses of Socratic Challenge. Socratic Challenge is used mostly, but not always, in tutoring dialogues. This case, 12 uses in 39 turns, is remarkable.

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