This paper relates an experiment that seeks the introduction of simulation as teaching and learning tool to the students of Production Engineering and Business Administration courses, and for recycle process of executives, to offer to the student the opportunity to verify, for its own initiative, the acquired knowledge and its applicability. It is intended, besides presenting the method describ...

Proof Helper addresses an important area of education, automated evaluation and assistance with proofs. However, one important question is when to provide hints to a student; ideally, we’d like to do this when the student is judged as being sufficiently confused. We ran a study using the oDesk service to collect data on how submission histories can be used as predictors for confusion. Though we...

One problem in ill-defined domains is accurately identifying the source of errors. Obtaining sufficient information about the error can be difficult because doing so may interfere with the learning task. In this paper we present the results of an experiment in the domain of German adjectives. We trialed a modified student interface that gathers more data during problem solving by requiring the ...

ArchieTutor is an experiment ill combining case-based and multimedia technologies to support tile teaching of architectural design. It provides all architectural student with access to a library of past design cases, and enables the student to retrieve and browse through cases that are similar to a given design problem. Tile cases are annotated with design lessons learned from thenl. In additio...

— There is little evidence showing whether health information transmitted via text messages can change health and educational outcomes. We conducted a randomized field experiment involving 900 primary students in rural China to study whether a health education campaign conducted via text message could affect caregiver knowledge or student outcomes. When caregivers received both weekly health me...

In this paper, we present a web-based system to provide student aid in structuring research projects, specifically in the drafting of the objective. We use MOODLE as platform to present course material and to evaluate the student objective, we establish a dictionary of verbs, articles and tools for structural analysis of the objective with the implementation of a finite-state machine. This info...

We hypothesize that enhancing computer tutors to respond to student uncertainty over and above correctness is one method for increasing both student learning and self-monitoring abilities. We test this hypothesis using spoken data from both wizarded and fully-automated versions of a spoken tutorial dialogue system, where tutor responses to uncertain and/or incorrect student answers were manipul...

Four experiments examined the effect on achievement motivation of mere belonging, a minimal social connection to another person or group in a performance domain. Mere belonging was expected to increase motivation by creating socially shared goals around a performance task. Participants were led to believe that an endeavor provided opportunities for positive social interactions (Experiment 1), t...