In this paper we explore the problem of selecting appropriate knowledge
construction dialogues (KCDs) for the purpose of encouraging students
to include important points in their qualitative physics
explanations
that are missing. We describe a hybrid symbolic / statistical
approach
developed in the context of the WHY2 conceptual physics tutor.
Our
preliminary results demonstrate that our hybrid approach outperforms
both
the symbolic approach and the statistical approach by themselves.
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