Using knowledge tracing in a noisy environment to measure student reading proficiencies

International Journal of Artificial Intelligence in Education

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 129-143

  Beck, Joseph E ^a   Sison, June ^a  

^a Carnegie Mellon University   (United States)

Author keywords

Automated speech recognition; Evaluation; Student modeling

Indexed keywords

EID: 85013567003     PISSN: 15604292     EISSN: 15604306     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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