A case study empirical comparison of three methods to evaluate tutorial behaviors

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

Volumn 5091 LNCS, Issue , 2008, Pages 122-131

  Zhang, Xiaonan ^a   Mostow, Jack ^a   Beck, Joseph E ^b  

^a Carnegie Mellon University ^*  (United States)

^b Worcester Polytechnic Institute   (United States)

Author keywords

Educational data mining; Evaluating tutor strategies; Knowledge tracing; Learning decomposition; Randomized controlled trials

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER AIDED INSTRUCTION; INTELLIGENT VEHICLE HIGHWAY SYSTEMS;

EDUCATIONAL DATA MINING; EVALUATING TUTOR STRATEGIES; KNOWLEDGE TRACINGS; LEARNING DECOMPOSITIONS; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL;

DATA MINING;

EID: 70349871432     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-69132-7_17     Document Type: Conference Paper

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