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 Research and Practice in Technology Enhanced Learning.
Aleahmad, T., Aleven, V., and Kraut, R. (2009). Creating a Corpus of Targeted Learning Resources with a Web-Based Open Authoring Tool, IEEE Transactions on Learning Technologies, vol. 2, no. 1, pp. 3-9, January-March, 2009.
Aleahmad, T., Aleven, V., and Kraut, R. (2008). Open community authoring of targeted worked example problems. 9th International Conference on Intelligent Tutoring Systems. Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Easterday, M. W., Aleven, V., Scheines, R., & Carver, S. M. (in press). Will Google destroy western democracy? Bias in policy problem solving. Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Education.
Easterday, M. W., Aleven, V., Scheines, R. & Carver, S. M. (in press). Constructing causal diagrams to learn deliberation. International Journal of Artificial Intelligence in Education.
Keyani, P., Hsieh G., Mutlu, B., Easterday, M. & Forlizzi, J. (2005) DanceAlong: Supporting positive social exchange and exercise for the elderly through dance. CHI 2005, April 2-7, 2005, Portland, OR.
Golden, E. (2009). Helping Software Architects Design For Usability, to appear in SIGCHI Symposium on Engineering Interactive Computing Systems (EICS 2009), July 14-17, 2009, Pittsburgh, PA.
(Poster) Golden, E. Addressing Important Issues In Education Through Analogy From Another Domain: User Interface Design As An Analog of Curriculum Design. Institute of Educational Sciences (IES) 2009 Research Conference, Washington, DC, June 7-9, 2009.
Golden, E. (2009) Early-stage Software Design for Usability (2009). Proceedings of the 31st International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE 2009), Companion Volume, Vancouver, BC, May 17-22, 2009.
Stoll, P., Bass, L., Golden, E., and B.E. John (2009). Supporting Usability in Product Line Architectures, to appear in Proceedings of 13th International Software Product Line Conference (SPLC 2009), August 24-28, 2009, San Francisco, CA.
John, B.E., Bass, L., Golden, E., and P. Stoll (2009). A Responsibility-Based Pattern Language for Usability-Supporting Architectural Patterns, to appear in ACM SIGCHI Symposium on Engineering Interactive Computing Systems (EICS 2009), July 14-17, 2009, Pittsburgh, PA.
Stoll, P., Bass, L., Golden, E., and B.E. John (2009). Integrating Usability Supporting Architectural Patterns in a Product Line System's Architecture. Fifth SEI Architecture Technology User Network Conference (SATURN 2009), May 4-7, 2009, Pittsburgh, PA.
Stoll, P., John, B.E., Bass, L., and Golden, E. (2008). Preparing Usability Supporting Architectural Patterns for Industrial Use. Proceedings of the International Workshop on the Interplay between Usability Evaluation and Software Development (I-USED 2008), Pisa, Italy, September 2008.
Heilman, M., Eskenazi, M. (2008). Self-Assessment in Vocabulary Tutoring. Young Researcher's Track. Ninth International Conference on Intelligent Tutoring Systems.
Heilman, M., Eskenazi, M. (2008). Self-Assessment in Vocabulary Tutoring. Young Researcher's Track. Ninth International Conference on Intelligent Tutoring Systems.
Feeney, C., Heilman, M. (2008). Automatically Generating and Validating Reading-Check Questions. Young Researcher's Track. Ninth International Conference on Intelligent Tutoring Systems.
Pino, J., Heilman, M. and Eskenazi, M. (2008) A Selection Strategy to Improve Cloze Question Quality. Proceedings of the Workshop of Intelligent Tutoring Systems for Ill-Defined Domains. 9th International Conference on Intelligent Tutoring Systems.
(Presentation/Publication) Sourish Chaudhiri, Rohit Kumar, Iris Howley and Carolyn Rosé. “Engaging Collaborative Learners with Helping Agents.” Artificial Intelligence in Education, 2009.
(Presentation/Poster) Iris Howley, Sourish Chaudhuri, Rohit Kumar and Carolyn Rosé. “Motivation and Collaboration On-Line.” Artificial Intelligence in Education, 2009.
(Publication/Young Researcher’s Track) Gustavo Santos, Iris Howley, Brad Copenhaver and Vincent Aleven. “Integrating Conceptual and Procedural Knowledge for Middle-school Math – A Cognitive Tutoring Approach.” Artificial Intelligence in Education, 2009.
(Presentation/Poster) Iris Howley, Sourish Chaudhuri, Rohit Kumar, Carolyn Penstein Rosé. “Motivation and collaborative behavior: An exploratory analysis.” Computer Supported Collaborative Learning Conference, 2009.
(Publication/Technical Demo) Rohit Kumar, Sourish Chaudhuri, Iris Howley & Carolyn Penstein Rosé. “VMT-Basilica: An environment for rapid prototyping of collaborative environments with dynamic support.” Computer Supported Collaborative Learning Conference, 2009.
Greenfield, D. B., Jirout, J., Dominguez, X., Greenberg, A. Maier, M., Fuccillo, J. (2009). Science in the Preschool Classroom: A Programmatic Research Agenda to Improve Science Readiness. Early Education and Development, 20(2), 238-264.
Jirout, J. & Lauwers, T. Fun game or educational software: Does it matter? Poster presented at the Institute of Education Sciences 2009 Research Conference, June 7-9, 2009, Washington, D.C.
Jirout, J. & Klahr, D. Children’s recognition of uncertainty and exploratory curiosity, Paper presented at the Society for Research in Child Development conference, April 2-4, 2009, Denver, CO.
Jirout, J. Children’s exploration: Does uncertainty matter? Poster presented at the Institute of Education Sciences 2007Research Conference, June 10-12, 2008, Washington, D.C.
Jirout, J. Children’s exploration: Does uncertainty matter? Poster presented at the First Annual CMU Innovation for Impact session, April 4, 2008, Pittsburgh, PA.
Jirout, J. Children’s exploration: Does uncertainty outweigh novelty? Poster presented at the First Annual Inter-Science of Learning Centers Conference, February 8-10, 2008, Pittsburgh, PA.
Jirout, J. & Klahr, D. Why do young children explore? Uncertainty reduction and scientific
curiosity in young children. Poster presented at the Institute of Education Sciences 2007
Research Conference, June 6-8, 2007, Washington, D.C.
Jirout, J. & Klahr, D. Why do children explore? Investigating the effect of ambiguity on
children’s scientific curiosity. Paper presented at the American Educational Research
Association Conference, April 9-13, 2007, Chicago.
Jirout, J. & Greenfield, D. Developing School Readiness through Science. Proceedings of Head Start’s 8th National Research Conference, June 26-28, 2006, Washington D.C.
Kao, Y. S. & Anderson, (2009, June). Spatial ability and geometry achievement. Poster presented at the Institute for Education Sciences 2009 Research Conference, Washington, DC.
Kao, Y. S. & Anderson, J. R. (2009, May). Contributions of Spatial Skills to Geometry Achievement II. Paper presented at Conference on Research and Training in Spatial Intelligence, Evanston, IL.
Alibali, M. W., Brown, A. N., Stephens, A. C., Kao, Y. S., & Nathan, M. J. (2009, April). Middle school students’ conceptual understanding of equations: Evidence from writing story problems. Wisconsin Center for Education Research Working Papers.
N. Kalra, T. Lauwers, D. Dewey, T. Stepleton, M.B. Dias, "Design of a Braille Writing Tutor to Combat Illiteracy". Information Systems Frontiers, May 2009.
Tom Lauwers, Illah Nourbakhsh, and Emily Hamner, "CSbots: Design and Deployment of a Robot Designed for the CS1 Classroom", SIGCSE Proceedings, pg 428-432, March 2009.
Tom Lauwers, Illah Nourbakhsh, and Emily Hamner, CSbots: A case study in introducing educational technology to a classroom setting", tech. report CMU-RI-TR-08-41, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, October, 2008
Ogan, Aleven, Jones. (in press). Pause, predict, and ponder: use of narrative videos to improve cultural discussion and learning. Extended abstract at 13th Biennial Conference on European Association for Research on Learning and Instruction.
Ogan, Aleven, Jones. (in press). Investigating the Effects of Social Goals in a Negotiation Game with Virtual Humans. Doctoral Consortium at 13th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Education.
Ogan, Aleven, Jones. (in press) Poster paper at 13th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Education
Ogan, Aleven, Kim, & Jones (in press). Antecedents of attributions in an educational game for social learning: Who’s to blame? 13th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction.
Presson, N. & MacWhinney, B. (submitted) Learning grammatical gender: rules and prototypes. (to Cognitive Science)
Presson, N. & MacWhinney, B. (2009, July). Explicitness and category breadth improve grammar learning and generalization. Presentation at the 7th International Symposium on Bilingualism, Utrecht, Netherlands.
Presson, N. & MacWhinney, B. (2009, June). Explicitness and category breadth effects on second language learning and retention. Poster presentation at the annual meeting of the Institute of Education Sciences, Washington DC.
Presson, N. (2008, July). An adaptive tutor for explicit instruction of French grammatical gender cues. Paper presentation at The Nature and Development of L2 French, Southampton, UK.
Presson, N. & MacWhinney, B. (2008, June). An adaptive tutor for explicit instruction of French grammatical gender cues. Poster presentation at the annual meeting of the Institute of Education Sciences, Washington DC.
Rau, M. A., Aleven, V., & Rummel, N. (2009). Intelligent Tutoring Systems with Multiple Representations and Self-Explanation Prompts Support Learning of Fractions. In V. Dimitrova, R. Mizoguchi, & B. du Boulay (Eds.), Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Education (pp. 441-448). Amsterdam, the Netherlands: IOS Press.
Roll, I., Aleven, V., McLaren, B.M., & Koedinger, K.R. (submitted). Online assessment and tutoring of help-seeking: toward domain learning through metacognitive improvement. Submitted to Learning and Instruction.
Baker, R. S. J. d., Corbett, A. T., Roll, I., & Koedinger, K. R. (2008). Developing a generalizable detector of when students game the system. User Modeling and User-Adapted Interaction, 18(3), 287-314.
Baker, R., Walonoski, J., Heffernan, N., Roll, I., Corbett, A., & Koedinger, K. R. (2008). Why students engage in "gaming the system" behavior in interactive learning environments. Journal of Interactive Learning Research, 19(2), 185-224.
Roll, I., Aleven, V., McLaren, B. M., & Koedinger, K. R. (2007). Designing for metacognition - applying cognitive tutor principles to the tutoring of help seeking. Metacognition and Learning, 2(2), 125-140.
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), 101-130.
Wylie, R., Shih, B. (2009) “Active vs Passive Training for Educational Software.” in Proceedings of the 31st Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society
Shih, B., Koedinger, K. R., Scheines, R. (2008) "A Response Time Model for Bottom-Out Hints as Worked Examples." in Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Educational Data Mining. Best Paper Award
Mills-Tettey, A., Mostow, J., Dias, M., Sweet, T., Gong, H, Belosov, S. and F. Dias. (2008) ”Project Kan´e: Investigations into Enhancing Child Literacy with Automated Tutoring.” ICDT 2009. Dona, Qatar.
Hallinen, N., Walker, E., Wylie, R., Ogan, A., and Jones, C. (2008) I was playing when I learned: A Narrative Game for French Aspectual Distinctions. Workshop Proceedings on Intelligent Educational Games at the 14th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Education. Brighton, England. July 6-10, 2009.
Wylie, R., Koedinger, K., and Mitamura, T. (2008) Putting a/the stake in the ground: Making a priori predictions of student learning. Accepted to Intelligent Tutoring Systems, Young Researchers Track. Montreal, Canada. June 23 – 27, 2008.
2008
Aleahmad, T., Aleven, V., and Kraut, R. (2008). Open community authoring of targeted worked example problems. 9th International Conference on Intelligent Tutoring Systems. Montreal, Quebec, Canada pdf
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.
Ayers, E. and Junker, B.W. (2008). IRT Modeling of Tutor Performance To Predict End-of-year Exam Scores. /Educational and Psychological Measurement, 68,/ 972-987 pdf
Ayers, E., Nugent, R., and Dean, N. (2008). Skill Set Profile Clustering Based on Student Capability Vectors Computed From Online Tutoring Data. /In Baker & Beck (Eds.). Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Education Data Mining./ pp.218-225. Montreal 2008. pdf
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
Ayers, E. and Junker, B.W. (2007). /IRT Modeling of Tutor Performance To Predict End-of-year Exam Scores/. Technical Report 859, Department of Statistics, Carnegie Mellon University pdf
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. pdf
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. pdf
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 pdf
T. Lauwers and I. Nourbakhsh, Informing Curricular Design by Surveying CS1 Educators. 4th International Symposium on Autonomous Minirobots for Research and Edutainment, October 2007 pdf
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. pdf
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. pdf
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. pdf
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
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. pdf
POSTERS
Student posters from the June 2008 IES conference
Turadg Aleahmad: Open community authoring of worked example problems
Beth Ayers: Skill Set Profile Clustering Based on Weighted Student Responses
Michael Heilman: Providing Appropriate Texts for Language Learners
Elida Laski: Inhibitory Control and the Acquisition of Numerical Knowledge
Tom Lauwers: Alignment of Technology with Instruction: A Case Study
Bryan Matlen: Analogical Transfer of Children's Story Problems
Amy Ogan: Achievement Attribution in Educational Games
Nora Presson: Contrasting explicit and implicit instruction for grammatical categorization
Ruth Wylie: Making a priori predictions about English as a Second Language grammar learning
AERA '06 poster
IES '06 poster
