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AIED
2009
Springer
14 years 6 months ago
Combining Evaluative and Generative Diagnosis in ACTIVEMATH
Generative and evaluative approaches are two different ways of diagnosing students’ input that have been realized in a number of intelligent tutoring systems. We describe how Ac...
George Goguadze, Erica Melis
AIED
2009
Springer
14 years 6 months ago
Motivational Diagnosis in ITSs: Collaborative, Reflective Self-Report
A central challenge in the design of motivationally intelligent tutoring systems lies in defining and diagnosing a learner’s motivational state: in particular, in distinguishing ...
Katerina Avramides, Benedict du Boulay
AIED
2009
Springer
14 years 6 months ago
A VR Environment for Assessing Dental Surgical Expertise
Traditional methods of dental surgical skills training and assessment are being challenged by complications such as unavailability of expert supervision and the subjective manner o...
Phattanapon Rhienmora, Peter Haddawy, Siriwan Sueb...
AIED
2009
Springer
14 years 6 months ago
Belief Exploration in a Multiple-Media Open Learner Model for Basic Harmony
This paper focuses on whether learners of basic music theory may find a multiple-media independent open learner model useful to explore their knowledge of harmony concepts. Learner...
Matthew Johnson, Susan Bull
AIED
2009
Springer
14 years 6 months ago
Detecting the Learning Value of Items In a Randomized Problem Set
Researchers that make tutoring systems would like to know which pieces of educational content are most effective at promoting learning among their students. Randomized controlled e...
Zachary A. Pardos, Neil T. Heffernan
AIED
2009
Springer
14 years 6 months ago
Knowledge Co-construction and Initiative in Peer Learning Interactions
The aim of the project we discuss in this paper is to develop a computational model of peer learning. We present an extensive analysis of peer learning dialogues, analysis on which...
Cynthia Kersey, Barbara Di Eugenio, Pamela W. Jord...
AIED
2009
Springer
14 years 6 months ago
Automated Assessment of Oral Reading Prosody
We describe an automated method to assess the expressiveness of children’s oral reading by measuring how well its prosodic contours correlate in pitch, intensity, pauses, and wor...
Jack Mostow, Minh Duong
AIED
2009
Springer
14 years 6 months ago
Fostering engaged and directed learning by activity foregrounding and backgrounding
We propose a design model for guiding learning in exploratory environments through representational choices. Selecting the appropriate representations at the correct granularity ca...
Katherine Howland, Benedict du Boulay, Judith Good
AIED
2009
Springer
14 years 6 months ago
Collaborative Dialog While Studying Worked-out Examples
Self-explaining is a beneficial learning strategy for studying worked-out examples because it either supplies missing information through the generation of inferences or because it...
Robert G. M. Hausmann, Timothy J. Nokes, Kurt VanL...