Program for Interdisciplinary Education Research @ Carnegie Mellon

PUBLICATIONS BY PIER PROGRAM PARTICIPANTS

CURRENT

Slotta, J.D., & Aleahmad, T. (in press). Challenges to technology enhanced learning -- the case for open source and content communities. To appear in a Special Issue of the International Journal of Science Education.

Harrer, Aleahmad, Slotta, Pinkwart (in press). ISIS – Towards a Technical Realisation of an Integrated Science Inquiry System. To appear in a Special Issue of the International Journal of Science Education.

Alibali, M. W., Brown, A. N., Stephens, A. C., Kao, Y. S., & Nathan, M. J. (submitted). Middle school students' conceptual understanding of equations: Evidence from writing story problems

Baker, R.S.J.d., Walonoski, J.A., Heffernan, N.T., Roll, I., Corbett, A.T., Koedinger, K.R. (to appear) Why Students Engage in "Gaming the System" Behavior in Interactive Learning Environments. To appear in Journal of Interactive Learning Research.

Roll, I., Aleven, V., McLaren, B. M., & Koedinger, K. R. (to appear) Designing for Metacognition – Applying Cognitive Tutor Principles to the Tutoring of Help Seeking. Metacognition and Instruction,

2007

Aleahmad, T., Slotta, J.D., and van Jooligan, W.R. (2007). Authoring Frameworks for Integrating Collaborative Learning Technologies. 8th International Conference of the Learning Sciences. July 17. Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ

Easterday, M. W., Aleven, V., & Scheines, R. (2007). The logic of babel: Causal reasoning from conflicting sources. Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Education.

Easterday, M. W., Aleven, V., & Scheines, R. (2007). ‘Tis better to construct or to receive? Effect of diagrams on analysis of social policy. Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Education.

Heilman, M., Collins-Thompson, K., Callan, J., and Eskenazi, M. (2007). Combining Lexical and Grammatical Features to Improve Readability Measures for First and Second Language Texts. /Proceedings of the Human Language Technology Conference./ Rochester, NY. [PDF] http://www.cs.cmu.edu/%7Emheilman/papers/heilman_HLT07_final.pdf

Heilman, M., Juffs, A., & Eskenazi, M. (2007). Choosing Reading Passages for Vocabulary Learning by Topic to Increase Intrinsic Motivation. /Proceedings of the 13th International Conferenced on Artificial Intelligence in Education./ Marina del Rey, CA. (poster) [PDF] http://www.cs.cmu.edu/%7Emheilman/papers/heilman_topic_choice_AIED2007_poster_final3.pdf

Kao, Y. S., Roll, I., Koedinger, K. R. (2007, August). Sources of difficulty in geometry area problem solving. Poster presented at the 19 th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, Nashville, TN.

N. Kalra, T. Lauwers, D. Dewey, T. Stepleton, M.B. Dias, Iterative Design of A Braille Writing Tutor to Combat Illiteracy. Proceedings of International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies and Development, December 2007

T. Lauwers and I. Nourbakhsh, Informing Curricular Design by Surveying CS1 Educators. 4th International Symposium on Autonomous Minirobots for Research and Edutainment, October 2007

Laski, E. V., & Siegler, R. S. (2007) . Is 27 a big number? Correlational and causal connections among numerical categorization, number line estimation, and numerical magnitude comparison. Child Development, 76 , 1723-1743.

Ogan, A., Jones, C., and Aleven V. (2007). Intelligent Tutoring in a Cultural Discussion Forum. To be presented, European Computer Assisted Language Learning (EuroCALL 2007) Ulster, Northern Ireland, September 2007.

Roll, I., Aleven, V., McLaren, B. M., & Koedinger, K. R. (2007). Can help seeking be tutored? Searching for the secret sauce of metacongitive tutoring. International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Education 2007, Los-Angeles, CA.

Shih, B., Koedinger, K., and Scheines, R. (2007) “Optimizing Student Models for Causality.” In Proceedings of the 13 th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Education

Walker, E., and Ogan, A. (2007) Peer Moderation in Cultural Discussion Forums. To be presented, European Computer Assisted Language Learning (EuroCALL 2007) Ulster, Northern Ireland, September 2007.

Wylie, R. (2007) Are we asking the right questions? Understanding which tasks lead to the robust learning of English grammar. Accepted as a Young Researchers Track paper at the 13th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Education . Marina del Rey, California. July 9 – 13, 2007.

Wylie, R., Mitamura, T., Koedinger, K., Rankin, J. (2007) Doing more than Teaching Students: Opportunities for CALL in the Learning Sciences. Proceedings of SLaTE Workshop on Speech and Language Technology in Education. Farmington, Pennsylvania. October 1-3, 2007.

Wylie, R., Mitamura, T., Rankin, J., Koedinger, K. (2007) Developing Tutoring Systems for Classroom and Research Use: A look at two English Article Tutors. Presentation at the Computer Assisted Language Instruction Consortium (CALICO). San Marcos, Teaxas. May 23 – 26, 2007

2006

Aleven, V., McLaren, B.M., Roll, I., & Koedinger, K.R. (2006). Toward meta-cognitive tutoring: A model of help seeking with a Cognitive Tutor. International Journal of Artificial Intelligence in Education (16), 101-30

Ayers E., & Junker B. W. (2006). Do skills combine additively to predict task difficulty in eighth grade mathematics? In Beck, J., Aimeur, E., & Barnes, T. (Eds). Educational Data Mining: Papers from the AAAI Workshop. Menlo Park, CA: AAAI Press. pp. 14-20. Technical Report WS-06-05.

Heilman, M., Collins-Thompson, K., Callan, J., & Eskenazi, M. (2006). Classroom success of an Intelligent Tutoring System for lexical practice and reading comprehension. /Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Spoken Language Processing./ Pittsburgh, U.S.A. [PDF] http://www.cs.cmu.edu/%7Emheilman/papers/REAP-interspeech06-final.pdf


AERA '06 poster
IES '06 poster

2005

Golden, E., John, B.E., and L. Bass (2005). The Value of a Usability-Supporting Architectural Pattern in Software Architecture Design: A Controlled Experiment. Proceedings of the 27th International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE 2005), St. Louis, MO, May 2005.

Copyright 2007 PIER. Supported by Institute of Education Sciences