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These tutors place greater demands on a student model than opportunistic tutors. Numeric calculi approaches are less well-suited because it is difficult to correctly assign numbers for evidence reliability and rule plausibility. It may also be difficult to interpret final results and provide suitable combining functions . When numeric measures of uncertainty are used, arbitrary numeric thresholds are often required for planning decisions. Such an approach is inappropriate when robust context-sensitive planning decisions must be made. Instead, the ability to examine beliefs and justifications is required. This paper presents a TMS-based implementation of the endorsement-based approach to student modeling, discusses the advantages of this approach for plannercontrolled tutors, and compares this approach to alternatives.","doi":null,"url":"https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1991/162","pdf":"https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1991/0162.pdf","markdown":"https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1991/162.md","bibtex":"https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1991/bibtex/162","volume":{"slug":"1991","title":"Proceedings of the Twelfth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence","short_title":"IJCAI 1991","url":"https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1991/","year":1991,"location":"Sydney, New South Wales, Australia","dates":"24-30 August 1991","editors":"John Mylopoulos and Ray Reiter","isbn":"","publisher":"International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence","doi_prefix":""},"section":"Principles of AI Applications","track":"Principles of AI Applications","number":162,"pages":{"first":1100,"last":1107},"keywords":[],"videos":[],"references":[{"position":1,"raw":"Barr, A.; Beard, M; and Atkinson, R. 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