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AIEDU
2008
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Be Brief, And They Shall Learn: Generating Concise Language Feedback for a Computer Tutor
To investigate whether more concise Natural Language feedback improves learning, we developed two Natural Language generators (DIAG-NLP1 and DIAG-NLP2), to provide feedback in an I...
Barbara Di Eugenio, Davide Fossati, Susan M. Halle...
AIEDU
2007
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Evaluating the Effect of Open Student Models on Self-Assessment
Abstract. This paper discusses the simple open student models used in two of our constraint-based tutors, SQLd KERMIT, and their effects on self-assessment. The systems present a h...
Antonija Mitrovic, Brent Martin
AIEDU
2007
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Explicit Reflection in Prolog-Tutor
This paper describes a reflection-based approach for open learner modeling (OLM). Tutoring dialogues are used by learners to explicitly reveal their own knowledge state to themselv...
Joséphine M. P. Tchétagni, Roger Nka...
AIEDU
2007
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UMPTEEN: Named and Anonymous Learner Model Access for Instructors and Peers
Recently, opening the learner model to the learner it represents has become more common in adaptive learning environments. There have also been systems that allow instructors acces...
Susan Bull, Andrew Mabbott, Abdallatif S. Abu-Issa
AIEDU
2007
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Student Models that Invite the Learner In: The SMILI: () Open Learner Modelling Framework
In recent years, the learner models of some adaptive learning environments have been opened to the learners they represent. However, as yet there is no standard way of describing a...
Susan Bull, Judy Kay
AIEDU
2007
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Desirable Characteristics of Learning Companions
This study investigated the desirable characteristics of anthropomorphized learning-companion agents for college students. First, interviews with six undergraduates explored their ...
Yanghee Kim
AIEDU
2007
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A Study of Feedback Strategies in Foreign Language Classrooms and Tutorials with Implications for Intelligent Computer-Assisted
This paper presents two new corpus-based studies of feedback in the domain of teaching Spanish as a foreign language, concentrating on the type and frequency of different feedback ...
Anita Ferreira, Johanna D. Moore, Chris Mellish
AIEDU
2007
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Evidence-based Approach to Interacting with Open Student Models
Research efforts focused on developing "active reports" are currently underway. Active reports are designed to foster communication among teachers, students, and parents ...
Diego Zapata-Rivera, Eric G. Hansen, Valerie J. Sh...
AIEDU
2007
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Opening up the Interpretation Process in an Open Learner Model
Opening a model of the learner is a potentially complex operation. There are many aspects of the learner that can be modelled, and many of these aspects may need to be opened in di...
Nicolas van Labeke, Paul Brna, Rafael Morales
AIEDU
2007
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The Difficulty Factors Approach to the Design of Lessons in Intelligent Tutor Curricula
We present an approach to designing intelligent tutoring systems, termed the Difficulty Factors Approach. In this approach, the designer investigates, at each iteration of the desi...
Ryan Shaun Joazeiro de Baker, Albert T. Corbett, K...