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50 Years of ERIC
50 Years of ERIC
The Education Resources Information Center (ERIC) is celebrating its 50th Birthday! First opened on May 15th, 1964 ERIC continues the long tradition of ongoing innovation and enhancement.

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Teaching the Teacher: Tutoring SimStudent Leads to More Effective Cognitive Tutor Authoring
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Matsuda, Noboru; Cohen, William W.; Koedinger, Kenneth R. – International Journal of Artificial Intelligence in Education, 2015
SimStudent is a machine-learning agent initially developed to help novice authors to create cognitive tutors without heavy programming. Integrated into an existing suite of software tools called Cognitive Tutor Authoring Tools (CTAT), SimStudent helps authors to create an expert model for a cognitive tutor by tutoring SimStudent on how to solve…
Descriptors: Intelligent Tutoring Systems, Programming, Computer Simulation, Models
Studying the Effect of a Competitive Game Show in a Learning by Teaching Environment
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Matsuda, Noboru; Yarzebinski, Evelyn; Keiser, Victoria; Raizada, Rohan; Stylianides, Gabriel J.; Koedinger, Kenneth R. – International Journal of Artificial Intelligence in Education, 2013
In this paper we investigate how competition among tutees in the context of learning by teaching affects tutors' engagement as well as tutor learning. We conducted this investigation by incorporating a competitive Game Show feature into an online learning environment where students learn to solve algebraic equations by teaching a synthetic…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Competition, Educational Games, Equations (Mathematics)