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        This paper describes an intelligent tutoring system designed to help students solve physics
        problems of a qualitative nature.  The tutor uses a unique cognitive based approach to
        teaching physics, which presents innovations in three areas. 1) The teaching strategy,
        which focuses on teaching links among the concepts of the domain that are essential for
        conceptual understanding yet are seldom learned by the students.  2) The manner in which
        the knowledge is taught, which is based on a combination of effective human tutoring
        techniques, successful pedagogical methods, and less cognitively demanding approaches.
         3) The way in which misconceptions are handled.  The tutor was implemented using the
        model-tracing paradigm and uses probabilistic assessment to guide the remediation.
        Some preliminary results of the evaluation of the system are also presented.

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