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Albacete, Patricia; Jordan, Pamela; Katz, Sandra; Chounta, Irene-Angelica; McLaren, Bruce M. – Grantee Submission, 2019
This paper describes an initial pilot study of Rimac, a natural-language tutoring system for physics. Rimac uses a student model to guide decisions about "what content to discuss next" during reflective dialogues that are initiated after students solve quantitative physics problems, and "how much support to provide" during…
Descriptors: Natural Language Processing, Teaching Methods, Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education
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Chi, Min; VanLehn, Kurt; Litman, Diane; Jordan, Pamela – International Journal of Artificial Intelligence in Education, 2011
Pedagogical strategies are policies for a tutor to decide the next action when there are multiple actions available. When the content is controlled to be the same across experimental conditions, there has been little evidence that tutorial decisions have an impact on students' learning. In this paper, we applied Reinforcement Learning (RL) to…
Descriptors: Classroom Communication, Interaction, Reinforcement, Natural Language Processing