Personal Assistant for Learning

Kinds of PAL tutorials

• Guided practice tutorials: These comprise both "implementation tutorials" (where a student practices implementing appropriate actions) or "coaching tutorials" (where a student practices making decisions and assessing whether performance has been satisfactory).

• Independent-performance tutorials: These help students learn how to perform without outside assistance.

Topics addressed in available PALs

• Acceleration: Interpreting this physics concept reliably in diverse situations

• Mechanics laws: Learning Newton's mechanics laws so as to interpret them properly

• Applying Newton's laws: Applying these laws systematically by analyzing objects' motion and the forces on them.

Availability of CD

• A compact disk, containing all these PAL tutorials, can be provided to interested individuals. Address your request, by e-mail, either to freif@andrew.cmu.edu or to lscott@andrew.cmu.edu.