A Demonstration of ITSs That Promote Scientific Inquiry Skills: Critical Thinking Tutor and ARIES

We will demonstrate two Intelligent Tutoring Systems (ITSs) that aspire to teach scientific inquiry skills though a natural language conversational dialogue. The ITSs include a new version of the AutoTutor system called Criti- cal Thinking Tutor and ARIES (Acquiring Research Investigative and Evalua- tive Skills), which is a semester long tutorial intervention that teaches scientific inquiry skills via a trialogue between two animated pedagogical agents (APAs) and a human learner. The systems provide cases that mirror authentic scientific research and allow users to evaluate the studies by assuming various roles (stu- dent, teacher, judge, jury), posing questions, and offering critiques.