This research investigates ways to bootstrap a socially intelligent tutoring agent using a Wizard-of-Oz design in which human teachers work as wizards. Students work in an interactive learning environment featuring problem solving and course notes activities, in either individual or group mode. They interact with the agent during off-task dialogs. This paper explores the effort needed on the pa...

Previous research has shown that teachers, working in computer supported classrooms, are often unhappy with what they perceive is the diminution of their role as educators. One solution to the problem of loss of control over the teaching and learning process is to provide teachers with tools to develop their own computer-based learning environments. The investigation presented here is a case-ba...

OBJECTIVE We sought to determine if a novel competency-based daily encounter card (DEC) that was designed to minimize leniency bias and maximize independent competency assessments could address the limitations of existing feedback mechanisms when applied to an emergency medicine rotation. METHODS Learners in 2 tertiary academic emergency departments (EDs) presented a DEC to their teachers aft...

This study was designed to ascertain the challenges of improvising instructional materials by Home Economics teachers at the Upper Basic education level in Nigeria, and as a result identify strategies for enhancing improvisation. The study used survey research design based on two research questions. The sample was four hundred and thirty-one Home Economics teachers in Upper Basic schools in Ana...

Assessing the performance of academics at different levels is increasingly difficult to achieve using traditional methods based mainly on numerical scores in evaluating teaching and research activity. The indexing academic various international databases with impact indices scales has led need for advanced computer models, such as expert systems fuzzy logic, proposed this research, which addres...

It has been recognized that in order to drive Intelligent Tutoring Systems (ITSs) into mainstream use by the teaching community, it is essential to support teachers through the entire ITS process: Design, Development, Deployment, Reflection and Adaptation. Although research has been done on supporting teachers through design to deployment of ITSs, there is surprisingly little discussion about s...