The Intelligent Tutoring System
An online tool to enhance your course curriculum in the field of behavioral and mental health service. Provide your students with essential practice in a variety of skills, along with tools to analyze their performance.
About
The Intelligent Tutoring System (ITS) is designed to teach basic clinical skills relevant to behavioral interventions and other structured psychotherapies. It was developed based on the ITS creators’ own original research, as well as previous research in the fields of learning science, educational technology, machine learning, and knowledge representation. Several studies show that when students are exposed to an intelligent tutoring system as part of their training, they perform as well as students who are trained by seasoned professionals and they demonstrate better problem-solving skills and higher self-efficacy in clinical situations.
The ITS utilizes a framework called “productive struggle”, which is a scaffolded learning approach that involves practice with clinical concepts and goes beyond passive reading, listening, or watching. In productive struggle, students are given novel tasks that are challenging; the tasks must be challenging enough that the student learns something new in the process, but not so difficult that the student becomes frustrated and discouraged. Recognizing that students learn at different rates, the ITS is able to adapt to each student’s pace of learning. The program gradually increases in difficulty as the student better understands the topics, keeping an effective level of productive struggle at all times.
Learn more about ITS and how to include it into your next course!