Beyond Behavorial Objectives: A Community Based Strategy for Evaluating a School System's Educational Program

Sidney J. Drumheller; Richard D. Brooks

Educational Technology Vol. 8, No. 8 (1973) pp. 13–19

The purpose of this article is to describe what appears to be a possible and fruitful method for enlisting the aid of an entire community in shaping educational policy and evaluating progress toward instructional objectives. (Author)

Knowledge Elicitation Methods for Affect Modelling in Education

Kaska Porayska-Pomsta; Manolis Mavrikis; Sidney D'Mello; Cristina Conati; Ryan S. J. d. Baker

International Journal of Artificial Intelligence in Education Vol. 22, No. 3 (2013) pp. 107–140

Research on the relationship between affect and cognition in Artificial Intelligence in Education (AIEd) brings an important dimension to our understanding of how learning occurs and how it can be facilitated. Emotions are crucial to learning, but...

The Relationship Between Affective States and Dialog Patterns During Interactions With AutoTutor

Arthur C. Graesser; Sidney K. D’Mello; Scotty D. Craig; Amy Witherspoon; Jeremiah Sullins; Bethany McDaniel; Barry Gholson

Journal of Interactive Learning Research Vol. 19, No. 2 (April 2008) pp. 293–312

Relations between emotions (affect states) and learning have recently been explored in the context of AutoTutor. AutoTutor is a tutoring system on the Internet that helps learners construct answers to difficult questions by interacting with them in...

Topics: Interaction, Educational Technology, Artificial Intelligence, Communication, Attitudes, Tutoring