Traditional Web-based educational systems still have several shortcomings when comparing with a real-life classroom teaching, such as lack of contextual and adaptive support, lack...
— In this paper I show how ontologies support the student modelling through the semantic definition of concepts that depict a student. The aim is to outline the framework for bui...
The issue of initializing the model of a new student is of great importance for educational applications that aim at offering individualized support to students. In this paper we ...
The main issue in e-learning is student modelling, i.e. the analysis of a student’s behaviour and prediction of his/her future behaviour and learning performance. Indeed, it is d...
Oriana Licchelli, Teresa Maria Altomare Basile, Ni...
Understanding the execution of an object-oriented program can be a challenge for a student starting a CS1 course. We believe that a type of diagram that we call a memory diagram c...
Time on task is an important predictor for how much students learn. However, students must be focused on their learning for the time invested to be productive. Unfortunately, stude...
Pencil-and-paper exercises in public-key cryptography are important in learning the subject. It is desirable that a student doing such an exercise does not get the right answer by...
Suan Khai Chong, Graham Farr, Laura Frost, Simon H...
A standing question in the field of Intelligent Tutoring Systems and User Modeling in general is what is the appropriate level of model granularity (how many skills to model) and h...
Zachary A. Pardos, Neil T. Heffernan, Brigham Ande...
Good teachers know their students, and exploit this knowledge to adapt or optimise their instruction. Traditional teachers know their students because they interact with them face-...
A primary measure of success in both student and commercial software development projects is the value delivered to the client. Of equal instructional importance is to what extent...