Rose, C. P., Moore, J. D., VanLehn, K., & Allbritton, D. (2001). A comparative evaluation of Socratic versus didactic tutoring. In J.D. Moore & K. Stenning (Eds.), Proceedings of the Twenty-Third Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 897-902). Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum.

While the effectiveness of one-on-one human tutoring has been well established, a great deal of controversy surrounds
the issue of which features of tutorial dialogue separate effective uses of dialogue in tutoring from those that
are less effective. In this paper we present a formal comparison of Socratic versus Didactic style tutoring that argues
in favor of the Socratic tutoring style.

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