Cognitive anatomy of tutor learning: Lessons learned with simstudent

Journal of Educational Psychology

Volumn 105, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 1152-1163

  Matsuda, Noboru ^a   Yarzebinski, Evelyn ^a   Keiser, Victoria ^a   Raizada, Rohan ^a   Cohen, William W ^a   Stylianides, Gabriel J ^b   Koedinger, Kenneth R ^a  

^a Carnegie Mellon University ^*  (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Learning by teaching; Machine learning; SimStudent; Teachable agent; Tutor learning

Indexed keywords

EID: 84887534336     PISSN: 00220663     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0031955     Document Type: Article

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