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AIED
2011
Springer
12 years 7 months ago
Carelessness and Goal Orientation in a Science Microworld
In this paper, we study the relationship between goal orientation within a science inquiry learning environment for middle school students and carelessness, i.e., not demonstrating...
Arnon Hershkovitz, Michael Wixon, Ryan Shaun Joaze...
FLAIRS
2008
13 years 5 months ago
Problem Posing in AnimalWatch: An Interactive System for Student-Authored Content
Bringing users into the process of content development may help to reduce the time and cost associated with tutoring system development, and may benefit users by deepening their u...
Mike Birch, Carole R. Beal
AIED
2007
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
Effect of Metacognitive Support on Student Behaviors in Learning by Teaching Environments
We have developed environments that use teaching as a metacognitive, reflective, and iterative process to help middle school students learn about complex processes. We demonstrate ...
Jason Tan, John Wagster, Yanna Wu, Gautam Biswas
IUI
2010
ACM
13 years 10 months ago
A code reuse interface for non-programmer middle school students
We describe a code reuse tool for use in the Looking Glass IDE, the successor to Storytelling Alice [17], which enables middle school students with little to no programming experi...
Paul A. Gross, Micah S. Herstand, Jordana W. Hodge...
CHI
2006
ACM
14 years 3 months ago
"Girls don't waste time": pre-adolescent attitudes toward ICT
Relying on naturalistic observation, via video selfdocumentaries, contextual interviews, and focus groups, we explored gender differences in the information and communication tech...
Weimin Hou, Manpreet Kaur, Anita Komlodi, Wayne G....
ICFP
2009
ACM
14 years 4 months ago
A functional I/O system or, fun for freshman kids
Functional programming languages ought to play a central role in mathematics education for middle schools (age range: 10?14). After all, functional programming is a form of algebr...
Matthias Felleisen, Robert Bruce Findler, Matthew ...