Irrelevant substantive response

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Irrelevant responses are those that are not responsive to the Tutor’s comments but are nonetheless substantive.[1] The highlighted response below is an example of an irrelevant but substantive response:

-Tutor: It seems reasonable?
-Tutee: That the Earth is accelerating.
-Tutor: Because of these masses.
-Tutee: [tutee laughs] No. Those are some pretty big masses. ---> irrelevant substantive response





Notes

  1. Chi, M. T., Roy, M., & Hausmann, R. G. (2008). Observing tutorial dialogues collaboratively: Insights about human tutoring effectiveness from vicarious learning. Cognitive science, 32(2), 301-341