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ITS
2010
Springer
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14 years 13 days ago
Learning What Works in ITS from Non-traditional Randomized Controlled Trial Data
The traditional, well established approach to finding out what works in education research is to run a randomized controlled trial (RCT) using a standard pretest and posttest desig...
Zachary A. Pardos, Matthew D. Dailey, Neil T. Heff...
AIED
2009
Springer
14 years 2 months ago
Who Helps When the Tutor Is Asleep?
While many computer tutoring systems have long been delivered as desktop applications, these systems have only recently begun to appear on mobile devices. In this work we apply pri...
Quincy Brown, Dario D. Salvucci, Frank J. Lee, Vin...
HICSS
2006
IEEE
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14 years 1 months ago
Tools for Building Intelligent Tutoring Systems
Intelligent Tutoring Systems (ITSs) have proved useful in a variety of domains, but are notoriously resource intensive to build. We have created two programs (“tutor generatorsâ...
Viswanathan Kodaganallur, Rob R. Weitz, David Rose...
ITS
2004
Springer
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14 years 1 months ago
Spoken Versus Typed Human and Computer Dialogue Tutoring
While human tutors typically interact with students using spoken dialogue, most computer dialogue tutors are text-based. We have conducted two experiments comparing typed and spoke...
Diane J. Litman, Carolyn Penstein Rosé, Kat...
ITS
2010
Springer
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14 years 13 days ago
Using Problem-Solving Context to Assess Help Quality in Computer-Mediated Peer Tutoring
Collaborative activities, like peer tutoring, can be beneficial for student learning, but only when students are supported in interacting effectively. Constructing intelligent tuto...
Erin Walker, Sean Walker, Nikol Rummel, Kenneth R....