Improving intelligent tutoring systems: Using expectation maximization to learn student skill levels

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 4053 LNCS, Issue , 2006, Pages 453-462

  Ferguson, Kimberly ^a   Arroyo, Ivon ^a   Mahadevan, Sridhar ^a   Woolf, Beverly ^a   Barto, Andy ^a  

^a Biologically Inspired Neural and Dynamical Systems Laboratory   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EDUCATION COMPUTING; GEOMETRY; INTELLIGENT AGENTS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; STUDENTS;

BAYESIAN INFORMATION CRITERION; BAYESIAN NETWORKS; EXPECTATION MAXIMIZATION; SKILL MODELS;

LEARNING SYSTEMS;

EID: 33746381651     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/11774303_45     Document Type: Conference Paper

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