Improving Adaptive Learning Technology through the Use of Response Times

Expanding the Space of Cognitive Science - Proceedings of the 33rd Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, CogSci 2011

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 2532-2537

  Mettler, Everett ^a   Massey, Christine M ^b   Kellman, Philip J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

adaptive learning; education; instruction and teaching; learning; learning technology; memory

Indexed keywords

ENGINEERING EDUCATION; LEARNING SYSTEMS; RESPONSE TIME (COMPUTER SYSTEMS);

ADAPTIVE LEARNING; ADAPTIVE LEARNING SYSTEMS; ADAPTIVE RESPONSE; INSTRUCTION AND TEACHING; INVERSE FUNCTIONS; LEARNING; LEARNING TECHNIQUES; LEARNING TECHNOLOGY; RECURRENCE INTERVALS; TIME BASED;

MARKOV PROCESSES;

EID: 85079186151     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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