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2007
Springer
14 years 2 months ago
'Tis Better to Construct than to Receive? The Effects of Diagram Tools on Causal Reasoning
Previous research on the use of diagrams for argumentation instruction has highlighted, but not conclusively demonstrated, their potential benefits. We examine the relative benefit...
Matthew W. Easterday, Vincent Aleven, Richard Sche...
AIED
2007
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
The Influence of Learner Characteristics on Task-Oriented Tutorial Dialogue
Tutorial dialogue has been the subject of increasing attention in recent years, and it has become evident that empirical studies of humanhuman tutorial dialogue can contribute impo...
Kristy Elizabeth Boyer, Mladen A. Vouk, James C. L...
AIED
2007
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
Explaining Self-Explaining: A Contrast between Content and Generation
Self-explaining has been repeatedly shown to result in positive learning outcomes for students in a wide variety of disciplines. However, there are two potential accounts for why s...
Robert G. M. Hausmann, Kurt VanLehn
AIED
2007
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
MathGirls: Toward Developing Girls' Positive Attitude and Self-Efficacy through Pedagogical Agents
MathGirls is a pedagogical-agent-based environment designed for high-school girls learning introductory algebra. Since females are in general more interested in interactive computi...
Yanghee Kim, Quan Wei, Beijie Xu, Youngah Ko, Vess...
AIED
2007
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
Comparing Linguistic Features for Modeling Learning in Computer Tutoring
We compare the relative utility of different automatically computable linguistic feature sets for modeling student learning in computer dialogue tutoring. We use the PARADISE frame...
Katherine Forbes-Riley, Diane J. Litman, Amruta Pu...