The Andes Physics Tutoring System: Five Years of Evaluations

Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications

Volumn 125, Issue , 2005, Pages 678-685

  Vanlehn, Kurt ^a   Lynch, Collin ^a   Schulze, Kay ^b   Shapiro, Joel A ^c   Shelby, Robert ^b   Taylor, Linwood ^a   Treacy, Don ^b   Weinstein, Anders ^a   Wintersgill, Mary ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

^b UNITED STATES NAVAL ACADEMY   (United States)

^c RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER AIDED INSTRUCTION; EDUCATION COMPUTING; PROBLEM SOLVING;

INTELLIGENT TUTORING; PROBLEM-SOLVING; STUDENT LEARNING; TUTORING SYSTEM;

STUDENTS;

EID: 84860326165     PISSN: 09226389     EISSN: 18798314     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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