Gamification of joint student/system control over problem selection in a linear equation tutor

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

Volumn 8474 LNCS, Issue , 2014, Pages 378-387

  Long, Yanjin ^a   Aleven, Vincent ^a  

^a Carnegie Mellon University ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

algebra; classroom evaluation; DragonBox; educational games; intelligent tutoring systems; rewards; shared control; student control

Indexed keywords

ALGEBRA; COMPUTER AIDED INSTRUCTION; LEARNING SYSTEMS; LINEAR EQUATIONS; STUDENTS; TEACHING;

CLASSROOM EVALUATION; DRAGONBOX; EDUCATIONAL GAME; INTELLIGENT TUTORING SYSTEM; REWARDS; SHARED CONTROL;

PROBLEM SOLVING;

EID: 84958530394     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-07221-0_47     Document Type: Conference Paper

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