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