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AIED
2007
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
Can Help Seeking Be Tutored? Searching for the Secret Sauce of Metacognitive Tutoring
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...
AIED
2007
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
The Effect of Problem Templates on Learning in Intelligent Tutoring Systems
: 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...
Moffat Mathews, Antonija Mitrovic
AIED
2007
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
Predicting Students' Performance with SimStudent: Learning Cognitive Skills from Observation
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,...
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...
AIED
2007
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
Does Learner Control Affect Learning?
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...
Joseph E. Beck
AIED
2007
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
Learning Tutorial Rules Using Classification Based On Associations
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...
Xin Lu, Barbara Di Eugenio, Stellan Ohlsson
AIED
2007
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
Open Learner Models: Opinions of School Education Professionals
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...
Alice Kerly, Susan Bull
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
Linking Educational Materials to Encyclopedic Knowledge
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 ...
Andras Csomai, Rada Mihalcea