In this research initialization of the student model in a Socially Intelligent Tutoring System (SITS) by means of the Five-Factor Model of personality (Big Five) is considered. Where applicable, using the Five-Factor Model inventory provides for “getting to know the stranger (student)”. The student model this paper is based on is the one described by Heylen et al. While part of the student mode...

Unsupervised learning algorithms can discover models of student behavior without any initial work by domain experts, but they also tend to produce complicated, uninterpretable models that may not predict student learning. We propose a simple, unsupervised clustering algorithm for hidden Markov models that can discover student learning tactics while incorporating student-level outcome data, cons...

In this study, we describe a conversational agent designed to support collaborative learning interactions between pairs of students. We describe a study in which we independently manipulate the social capability and goal alignment of the agent in order to investigate the impact on student learning outcomes and student perceptions. Our results show a significant interaction effect between the tw...

This paper examines undergraduate student use of laptop computers during a lecture-style class that includes substantial problem-solving activities and graphic-based content. The study includes both a self-reported use component collected from student surveys as well as a monitored use component collected via activity monitoring “spyware” installed on student laptops. We categorize multitasking...

Introduction: Research about student performance has traditionally considered academic procrastination as a behavior that has negative effects on academic achievement. Although there is much evidence for this in class-based environments, there is a lack of research on Computer-Based Learning Environments (CBLEs). Therefore, the purpose of this study is to evaluate student behavior in a blended ...

OBJECTIVE This article provides a review of conceptual and empirical studies on the role of social norms in college student alcohol use and in prevention strategies to counter misuse. The normative influences of various constituencies serving as reference groups for students are examined as possible factors influencing students' drinking behavior. METHOD A review of English language studies w...

Distance learning is one of the common education methods. Its advantage lies in that the student can learn at anytime or anyplace. However, such a learning mode relies highly on the dependence of the student. Under different environments and conditions, not all the students can be attentive. In this research, an auto-detection system has been designed, using image processing and recognition tec...

I N DOING RESEARGH on problem solving, educational psychologists face serious difficulties in obtaining detailed information on student performance in solving problems; It may be possible to observe some educational activities unobtrusively, but it is very difficult to obtain detailed records of individual problem-solving behavior in this way. In order to obtain the data necessary to investigat...

BACKGROUND In problem-based learning curricular research has focused on the characteristics of good facilitators and how they influence student performance and satisfaction. Far less frequently addressed has been the question of how PBL facilitators influence the small group session activity of students. We investigated the impact that facilitators' encouragement of use or non-use of the Intern...

We examine correlations between dialogue behaviors and learning in tutoring, using two corpora of spoken tutoring dialogues: a human-human corpus and a human-computer corpus. To formalize the notion of dialogue behavior, we manually annotate our data using a tagset of student and tutor dialogue acts relative to the tutoring domain. A unigram analysis of our annotated data shows that student lea...