Deep follow-up

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A deep follow-up, which is an elaborative inference that extends what the tutor said .[1] Examples of deep follow-ups are as follows:

  Text  sentence  #16: Each  of  the  valves  consists  of  flaps  of  tissue  that  open  as  blood  is pumped out of the ventricles.
   -Tutor:“blood actually flows out through there.”
   -Student:(deep follow-up) “This contracts like a balloon and forces this venous blood up here.”


  Text sentence #43: At first the molecules of sugar are more concentrated in and around the sugar cube and less concentrated in the water farther   from the cube.
   -Tutor:“This cube of sugar is disintegrating, breaking apart, expanding into all spaces . . .”
   -Student:(deep follow-up) “Until, until equilibrium is accomplished.”


Notes

  1. Chi, M. T., Siler, S. A., Jeong, H., Yamauchi, T., & Hausmann, R. G. (2001). Learning from human tutoring. Cognitive science, 25(4), 471-533.