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Danielle S. McNamara; Tracy Arner; Reese Butterfuss; Ying Fang; Micah Watanabe; Natalie Newton; Kathryn S. McCarthy; Laura K. Allen; Rod D. Roscoe – Grantee Submission, 2022
The Interactive Strategy Training for Active Reading and Thinking (iSTART) game-based intelligent tutoring system (ITS) was developed with a foundation of comprehension theory and principles of learning science to improve students' comprehension of complex scientific texts. iSTART has been shown to improve reading comprehension for learners from…
Descriptors: Reading Strategies, Reading Instruction, Reading Programs, Reading Comprehension
Office of Educational Technology, US Department of Education, 2023
The U.S. Department of Education (Department) is committed to supporting the use of technology to improve teaching and learning and to support innovation throughout educational systems. This report addresses the clear need for sharing knowledge and developing policies for "Artificial Intelligence," a rapidly advancing class of…
Descriptors: Artificial Intelligence, Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education, Educational Policy
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Wetzel, Jon; VanLehn, Kurt; Butler, Dillan; Chaudhari, Pradeep; Desai, Avaneesh; Feng, Jingxian; Grover, Sachin; Joiner, Reid; Kong-Sivert, Mackenzie; Patade, Vallabh; Samala, Ritesh; Tiwari, Megha; van de Sande, Brett – Interactive Learning Environments, 2017
This paper describes Dragoon, a simple intelligent tutoring system which teaches the construction of models of dynamic systems. Modelling is one of seven practices dictated in two new sets of educational standards in the U.S.A., and Dragoon is one of the first systems for teaching model construction for dynamic systems. Dragoon can be classified…
Descriptors: Intelligent Tutoring Systems, Models, Computer Interfaces, Comparative Analysis
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Allen, Laura K.; Jacovina, Matthew E.; McNamara, Danielle S. – Grantee Submission, 2016
The development of strong writing skills is a critical (and somewhat obvious) goal within the classroom. Individuals across the world are now expected to reach a high level of writing proficiency to achieve success in both academic settings and the workplace (Geiser & Studley, 2001; Powell, 2009; Sharp, 2007). Unfortunately, strong writing…
Descriptors: Writing Skills, Writing Instruction, Writing Strategies, Teaching Methods
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Heffernan, Neil T.; Heffernan, Cristina Lindquist – International Journal of Artificial Intelligence in Education, 2014
The ASSISTments project is an ecosystem of a few hundred teachers, a platform, and researchers working together. Development professionals help train teachers and get teachers to participate in studies. The platform and these teachers help researchers (sometimes explicitly and sometimes implicitly) simply by using content the teacher selects. The…
Descriptors: Intelligent Tutoring Systems, Educational Research, Formative Evaluation, Artificial Intelligence
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Feng, Mingyu; Roschelle, Jeremy; Heffernan, Neil; Fairman, Janet; Murphy, Robert – Grantee Submission, 2014
Much research has been done on the development of an intelligent tutoring system (ITS), and small empirical studies have demonstrated the effectiveness of ITS at promoting student learning. However, large-scale implementation of ITS in school settings has not been researched thoroughly. In this paper, we describe an ongoing randomized controlled…
Descriptors: Intelligent Tutoring Systems, Homework, Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education