Wednesday, October 21, 2026

Towards Trustworthy Intelligent Tutoring Systems for Nursing Education:Integrating Nurse-Informed Design with a Frugal Neuro-Symbolic Architecture - Nevena K. Dicheva, AAAI/ACM Conference on AI

The design,development,and evaluation of EduNurse,   a   domain-specific   ITS   prototype   for nursing  education.Guided  by  the  CARE-ITS  frame-work,   this   research   presents   a   scenario-based   ITS prototype  (EduNurse)  that  translates  empirically  de-rived  learner  needs,  pedagogical  considerations,  and framework-guided  design  principles  into  a  functional educational system. EduNurse does not introduce a new AI  technique.  Its  contribution  is  how  it  brings  established approaches together within a nurse-informed ITSarchitecture  designed  around  the  pedagogical  require-ments of nursing education. Within EduNurse, semantic similarity is used alongside educational decision rules to assess written scenario responses and provide feedback and  learner  support.