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EDM
2009
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Reducing the Knowledge Tracing Space
In Cognitive Tutors, student skill is represented by estimates of student knowledge on various knowledge components. The estimate for each knowledge component is based on a four-pa...
Steven Ritter, Thomas K. Harris, Tristan Nixon, Da...
EDM
2009
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Differences Between Intelligent Tutor Lessons, and the Choice to Go Off-Task
Recent research has suggested that differences between intelligent tutor lessons predict a large amount of the variance in the prevalence of gaming the system [4]. Within this pape...
Ryan Baker
EDM
2009
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Does Self-Discipline impact students' knowledge and learning?
In this study, we are interested to see the impact of self-discipline on students' knowledge and learning. Self-discipline can influence both learning rate as well as knowledg...
Yue Gong, Dovan Rai, Joseph Beck, Neil T. Hefferna...
EDM
2009
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Automatic Detection of Student Mental Models During Prior Knowledge Activation in MetaTutor
This paper presents several methods to automatically detecting students' mental models in MetaTutor, an intelligent tutoring system that teaches students self-regulatory proce...
Vasile Rus, Mihai C. Lintean, Roger Azevedo
EDM
2009
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How do Students Organize Personal Information Spaces?
The purpose of this study is to empirically reveal strategies of students' organization of learning-related digital materials within an online personal information archive. Re...
Sharon Hardof-Jaffe, Arnon Hershkovitz, Hama Abu-K...
EDM
2009
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Using Learning Decomposition and Bootstrapping with Randomization to Compare the Impact of Different Educational Interventions o
A basic question of instructional interventions is how effective it is in promoting student learning. This paper presents a study to determine the relative efficacy of different in...
Mingyu Feng, Joseph Beck, Neil T. Heffernan
EDM
2009
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Dimensions of Difficulty in Translating Natural Language into First-Order Logic
In this paper, we present a study of a large corpus of student logic exercises in which we explore the relationship between two distinct measures of difficulty: the proportion of s...
Dave Barker-Plummer, Richard Cox, Robert Dale
EDM
2009
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Predicting Students Drop Out: A Case Study
The monitoring and support of university freshmen is considered very important at many educational institutions. In this paper we describe the results of the educational data minin...
Gerben Dekker, Mykola Pechenizkiy, Jan Vleeshouwer...
EDM
2009
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Learning Factors Transfer Analysis: Using Learning Curve Analysis to Automatically Generate Domain Models
This paper describes a novel method to create a quantitative model of an educational content domain of related practice item-types using learning curves. By using a pairwise test t...
Philip I. Pavlik Jr., Hao Cen, Kenneth R. Koedinge...