In our on-going endeavor to teach students better help-seeking skills we designed a three-pronged Help-Seeking Support Environment that includes (a) classroom instruction (b) a Sel...
Ido Roll, Vincent Aleven, Bruce M. McLaren, Kennet...
: This paper proposes the notion of problem templates (PTs), a concept based on theories of memory and expertise. These mental constructs allow experts to quickly recognise problem...
SimStudent is a machine-learning agent that learns cognitive skills by demonstration. SimStudent was originally built as a building block for Cognitive Tutor Authoring Tools to hel...
Noboru Matsuda, William W. Cohen, Jonathan Sewall,...
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...
Many intelligent tutoring systems permit some degree of learner control. A natural question is whether the increased student engagement and motivation such control provides results...
Rules have been showed to be appropriate representations to model tutoring and can be easily applied to intelligent tutoring systems. We applied a machine learning technique, Class...
This work surveys the opinions of teachers and other education professionals regarding the potential for Open Learner Models (OLM) in UK schools. We describe the aims of OLM, and o...
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...
This paper describes a system that automatically links study materials to encyclopedic knowledge, and shows how the availability of such knowledge within easy reach of the learner ...