Knowledge Modeling in Intelligent Tutoring Systems

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Fall 2004 Outline This class is being developed based on the course User-Adaptive Systems and Intelligent Learning Environments by Cristina Conati at UBC in Winter 2003-2004. Date Topic(s) Reading Assignment 08/24/04 Introduction AAAI's introduction to Intelligent Tutoring Systems. In particular: Eric Thomas's brief intro to Intelligent Tutoring Systems Applications of AI in Education By Joseph Beck, Mia Stern, and Erik Haugsjaa. ACM Crossroads (student magazine of the Association for Computing Machinery), 1996. 08/26/04 Effective Teaching & Potential for ITSs See Bloom for a discussion of tutoring as the most effective teaching method: Bloom, BS, "The 2 Sigma oroblem: The Search for Methods of Group Instruction as Effective as One-to-One Tutoring" [1984] Educational Researcher 4-16. 08/31/04 Introduction Repeat 09/09/04 Adaptive Interfaces A. Jameson. "Adaptive Interfaces and Agents" in Human-Computer Interface Handbook, eds J.A. Jacko and A. Sears, pp 305-330, 2003   Slides by Cristina Conati 09/16/04 The Q-matrix Method Barnes, T., & D. Bitzer, Fault tolerant teaching and automated knowledge assessment. Proceedings of the 40th Annual ACM Southeast Conference (ACMSE'02), Raleigh, NC, April 27, 2002, pp. 125-132. Slides from Barnes Sept 10 talk Adaptive Support to Learning: History of CAI to ITS Shute, V. J., & Psotka, J. (1996). Intelligent tutoring systems: Past, Present and Future. In D. Jonassen (Ed.), Handbook of Research on Educational Communications and Technology : Scholastic Publications. Slides by Cristina Conati Intro to Knowledge & Mental Models Preece, J., Rogers, Y., Sharp, H., Benyon, D., Holland, S. & Carey, T. (1994) Human-Computer Interaction. Wokingham, UK: Addison-Wesley, Chapter 6, pp. 123-140. 09/23/04 Adaptive Support to Learning: Student Modeling VanLehn. K.(1988). Student Modeling. In M.C. Polson and J.J Richardson, Foundations of Intelligent Tutoring Systems, (pp55-78). Self. , J. Bypassing the intractable problem of student modeling. In C. Frasson and G. Gauthier (eds.). Intelligent tutoring systems: at the crossroad of artificial intelligence and education (pp.107-123). Norwood, NJ: Ablex Publishing Corporation Barnes slides 09/30/04 Adaptive Support to Learning: Model Tracing Coaches Anderson, J. R., Corbett, A. T., Koedinger, K. R., & Pelletier, R. (1995). Cognitive Tutors: Lessons Learned. The Journal of the Learning Sciences , 4(2), 167-207. Barnes slides Koedinger, K. R., Anderson, J. R., Hadley, W. H., & Mark, M. A. (1995). Intelligent tutoring goes to school in the big city. International Journal of Artificial Intelligence in Education (1997), 8,30-43 (until p. 38, section 3 excluded. Reading the additionl 5 pages is highly recommended, but not required). Barnes slides Conati C., Gertner A., VanLehn K. (2002). Using Bayesian Networks to Manage Uncertainty in Student Modeling. User Modeling and User-Adapted Interaction. 12(4). Conati Slides Barnes Slides 10/07/04 Adaptive support to learning: Issue recognizing coaches Last Day to Drop this Class Project Description Posted Burton, R. R., & Brown, J. S. (1982). An investigation of computer coaching for informal learning activities (pp. 79-98). In D. Sleeman and J. S. Brown (Ed.), Intelligent Tutoring Systems. New York: Academic Press. Presented by Caroline Ziemkiewicz. Ritter, F. & Feurzeig, W. (1988). Teaching real-time tactical thinking (pp. 285-301). In J. Psotka, L. D. Massey & S. A. Mutter (Eds.) Intelligent Tutoring Systems: Lessons Learned. Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum. Presented by Ted Carmichael. 10/19/04 Collaborative Systems Bruckman, Amy. (2003);. Co-evolution of technological design and pedagogy in an online learning community. In Barab, S., R. Kling, & J. Gray, eds. Designing Virtual Communities in the Service of Learning. Cambridge University Press. Bunt A., Conati C., Hugget M. and Muldner K. (2001) On Improving the Effectiveness of Open Learning Environments through Tailored Support for Exploration. In Proceedings of AIED 2001, 10th World Conference of Artificial Intelligence and Education, S. Antonio, Texas. Soller, Amy. (2001). Supporting social interaction in an intelligent collaborative learning system. Intl. Journal of Artificial Intelligence in Education. Tiffany Barnes ICLS slides 10/28/04 Bringing it all together Project Proposal Due Review what we have learned so far, evaluate the class, plan direction for remainder of semester. Brainstormed some ideas of new applications of Marve. Class evaluation notes/results 11/04/04 Evaluation of Algebra II Cognitive Tutor, Writing a Grant Proposal Try the Andes physics tutor online. Try the Algebra tutor, Ms. Lindquist, online. Try the NovaNET tutorials, see the projects page. 11/11/04 Human-Computer Interaction Readings from: Norman, Don. (1990). The design of everyday things. New York: Doubleday. Presented by Cathy Zanbaka. 11/18/04 Conversational Interfaces Oviatt, Sharon & Bridget Adams. (2000). Designing and evaluating conversational interface with animated characters. In Embodied Conversational Agents, J. Cassell, J. Sullivan, S. Prevost, and E. Churchill, Eds. MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 319--343. Xiao, J., J. Stasko, & R. Catrambone. (2002). Embodied Conversational agents as a UI paradigm: A framework for evaluation. Presented at Embodied conversational agents- let's specify and evaluate them!, Bologna. Johnson, W.L., J. Rickel, & J. Lester. (2000). Animated pedagogical agents: Face-to-face interation in interactive learning environments. Intl. Journal of Artificial Intelligence in Education, 11, 47-78. Presented by Sab Babu. 11/23/04 Learning Styles Grant Proposal Review Howard Gardner, Multiple Intelligences: The Theory in Practice. Chapter 1. New York: Basic Books, 1993. Robert Ennis, "A Taxonomy of Critical Thinking Dispositions and Abilities," in Teaching Thinking Skills. Robert Stermberg, ed. New York: WH Freeman and Company, 1987. Bernice McCarthy, The 4MAT System. Barrington, IL: EXCEL, Inc., 1987. Lumsdaine, Edward and Monika. "The four quadrant brain model of thinking preferences." Chapter 3 in Creative Problem Solving. New York: McGraw-Hill, Inc. 1995. (This book summarized the work of Ned Hermann, David Kolb, and Bernice McCarthy.) 12/02/04 Experimental Design Slides 12/07/04 Class Recap 12/14/04 Final Project Presentations