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AIED
2007
Springer
13 years 6 months ago
Measuring the Effect of Collaboration in an Assessment Environment
This paper describes a computerized collaborative testing environment in which students can take an assessment session in groups. For each question, an individual response is first...
Beatriz Barros, Ricardo Conejo, Eduardo Guzm&aacut...
AIED
2007
Springer
13 years 8 months ago
Optimizing Student Models for Causality
Complex student models often include key parameters critical to their behavior and effectiveness. For example, one meta-cognitive model of student help-seeking in intelligent tutor...
Benjamin Shih, Kenneth R. Koedinger, Richard Schei...
AIED
2007
Springer
13 years 8 months ago
Towards promoting meta-cognition using emotive interface personas within Open-Learner Modelling Environments
: The use of Open-Learner Modelling (OLM) within Intelligent Learning Environments is becoming more common. By allowing learners a greater control over their learning experience, O...
Sylvie Girard
AIED
2007
Springer
13 years 8 months ago
Evaluating a Collaborative Constraint-based Tutor for UML Class Diagrams
COLLECT-UML is a collaborative constraint-based tutor for teaching object-oriented analysis and design using Unified Modelling Language. It is the first system in the family of con...
Nilufar Baghaei, Antonija Mitrovic
AIED
2007
Springer
13 years 8 months ago
Is Over Practice Necessary? - Improving Learning Efficiency with the Cognitive Tutor through Educational Data Mining
This study examined the effectiveness of an educational data mining method
Hao Cen, Kenneth R. Koedinger, Brian Junker
AIED
2007
Springer
13 years 8 months ago
Novel Tools for Assessing Student Discussions: Modeling threads and participant roles using speech act and course topic analysis
This paper describes new techniques for assessing pedagogical discourse via threaded discussions that are based on an analysis of speech acts and course topics. The context is an u...
Jihie Kim, Erin Shaw, Grace Chern, Roshan Herbert
AIED
2007
Springer
13 years 8 months ago
'Tis Better to Construct than to Receive? The Effects of Diagram Tools on Causal Reasoning
Previous research on the use of diagrams for argumentation instruction has highlighted, but not conclusively demonstrated, their potential benefits. We examine the relative benefit...
Matthew W. Easterday, Vincent Aleven, Richard Sche...
AIED
2007
Springer
13 years 8 months ago
Domain-Specific and Domain-Independent Interactive Behaviors in Andes
In this study, students studied two different domains in the same Intelligent Tutoring System, Andes. Analysis of 435 log files from 22 subjects indicated that there are two types ...
Min Chi, Kurt VanLehn
AIED
2007
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
Getting Under the Skin of Learners: Tools for Evaluating Emotional Experience
: This paper reports a study that evaluated a methodology and tool for eliciting the emotional experience of language learning. It has looked at the relative rate of change of diff...
Madeline Alsmeyer, Rosemary Luckin, Judith Good
AIED
2007
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
Empowering researchers to detect interaction patterns in e-collaboration
This paper describes an approach to support practitioners in the analysis of computer-supported learning processes by utilizing logfiles of learners’ actions captured by the sys...
Andreas Harrer, Rakheli Hever, Sabrina Ziebarth