The impact of why/autotutor on learning and retention of conceptual physics

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

Volumn 3220, Issue , 2004, Pages 501-510

  Tanner Jackson, G ^a   Ventura, Matthew ^a   Chewle, Preeti ^a   Graesser, Art ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MEMPHIS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER AIDED INSTRUCTION; EDUCATION COMPUTING; INTELLIGENT VEHICLE HIGHWAY SYSTEMS; SCAFFOLDS; STUDENTS;

ANIMATED AGENTS; INFORMATION DELIVERY SYSTEM; INTELLIGENT TUTORING SYSTEM; KNOWLEDGE CONSTRUCTION; LEARNING GAIN; LEARNING SCAFFOLDS; NATURAL LANGUAGES; SYNTHESIZED SPEECH;

TEACHING;

EID: 35048830882     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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