Automatic detection of off-task behaviors in intelligent tutoring systems with machine learning techniques

IEEE Transactions on Learning Technologies

Volumn 3, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 228-236

  Cetintas, Suleyman ^a   Si, Luo ^a   Xin, Yan Ping ^b   Hord, Casey ^b  

^a Purdue University   (United States)

^b PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

adaptive and intelligent educational systems.; Computer uses in education

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATIC DETECTION; COMPUTER USES IN EDUCATION; DATA SPARSENESS PROBLEM; ESTIMATE MODEL; INTELLIGENT EDUCATIONAL SYSTEMS; INTELLIGENT TUTORING SYSTEM; LOG FILE; MACHINE LEARNING TECHNIQUES; MACHINE-LEARNING; MOUSE MOVEMENTS; PERSONALIZED MODEL; RESEARCH TOPICS; RIDGE-REGRESSION ALGORITHM; TIME FEATURES;

COMPUTER AIDED INSTRUCTION; LEARNING SYSTEMS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; STUDENTS;

EDUCATION COMPUTING;

EID: 79959286835     PISSN: 19391382     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TLT.2009.44     Document Type: Article

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