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ITS
2010
Springer
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A Time for Emoting: When Affect-Sensitivity Is and Isn't Effective at Promoting Deep Learning
We have developed and evaluated an affect-sensitive version of AutoTutor, a dialogue based ITS that simulates human tutors. While the original AutoTutor is sensitive to learners’...
Sidney K. D'Mello, Blair Lehman, Jeremiah Sullins,...
ITS
2010
Springer
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13 years 7 months ago
Riding the Third Wave
Steve Ritter
ITS
2010
Springer
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13 years 7 months ago
How Adaptive Is an Expert Human Tutor?
In examine the tutoring protocols of one expert human tutor tutoring 10 students in solving physics problems, four analyses reveal that he tutored the five good learners in differe...
Michelene T. H. Chi, Marguerite Roy
ITS
2010
Springer
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13 years 8 months ago
Comparing Disengaged Behavior within a Cognitive Tutor in the USA and Philippines
We study how student behaviors associated with engagement differ across different school settings. We present a study to investigate the variation in gaming the system and off-task...
Ma. Mercedes T. Rodrigo, Ryan Shaun Joazeiro de Ba...
ITS
2010
Springer
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13 years 9 months ago
Do Micro-Level Tutorial Decisions Matter: Applying Reinforcement Learning to Induce Pedagogical Tutorial Tactics
Pedagogical tutorial tactics are policies for a tutor to decide the next action when there are multiple actions available. When the contents were controlled so as to be the same, l...
Min Chi, Kurt VanLehn, Diane J. Litman
ITS
2010
Springer
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Learning to Argue Using Computers - A View from Teachers, Researchers, and System Developers
The ability to argue is essential in many aspects of life, but traditional face-to-face tutoring approaches do not scale up well. A solution for this dilemma may be computer-suppor...
Frank Loll, Oliver Scheuer, Bruce M. McLaren, Niel...
ITS
2010
Springer
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Can Affect Be Detected from Intelligent Tutoring System Interaction Data? - A Preliminary Study
This study attempted to determine if it is possible to create an automatic affect detector using a combination of semantic and keystroke data. While the resulting models attained d...
Elizabeth A. Anglo, Ma. Mercedes T. Rodrigo
ITS
2010
Springer
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In the Zone: Towards Detecting Student Zoning Out Using Supervised Machine Learning
This paper explores automatically detecting student zoning out while performing a spoken learning task. Standard supervised machine learning techniques were used to create classiï¬...
Joanna Drummond, Diane J. Litman
ITS
2010
Springer
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A Network Analysis of Student Groups in Threaded Discussions
As online discussion boards become a popular medium for collaborative problem solving, we would like to understand patterns of group interactions that lead to collaborative learnin...
Jeon-Hyung Kang, Jihie Kim, Erin Shaw
ITS
2010
Springer
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A Computational Model of Accelerated Future Learning through Feature Recognition
Accelerated future learning, in which learning proceeds more effectively and more rapidly because of prior learning, is considered to be one of the most interesting measures of ro...
Nan Li, William W. Cohen, Kenneth R. Koedinger