Fwd: PSLC Seminar: Ryan Baker on Monday May 23 at 12:00PM in NSH 3305

[Abramovich, Samuel]

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From: Noboru Matsuda <Noboru....@cs.cmu.edu>

Date: May 11, 2011 1:51:06 PM EDT

To: "pslc-pier...@lists.andrew.cmu.edu" <pslc-pier...@lists.andrew.cmu.edu>

Cc: Ryan Baker <rsb...@wpi.edu>

Subject: PSLC Seminar: Ryan Baker on Monday May 23 at 12:00PM in NSH 3305

Please mark your calendar for another great PSLC talk!

Date: Monday, May 23
Location: NSH 3305

Speaker: Ryan Baker

Title: TOWARDS AUTOMATICALLY DETECTING THE ROBUSTNESS OF STUDENT LEARNING

Abstract: Recent theory and research has emphasized the importance that intelligent tutoring systems promote “robust” learning that is retained over time, transfers to new situations, and prepares students for future learning. The behavior of intelligent tutoring systems is driven to large degrees by sophisticated automated assessments of student learning. However, these assessments typically do not consider how robust student learning is. In this talk, I will present automated detectors (developed in collaboration with Albert Corbett and Sujith Gowda) which explicitly detect whether a student has acquired learning which will transfer to better performance on related skills and prepare the student for future learning. I compare these detectors to a classic method for assessing student knowledge, Bayesian Knowledge-Tracing,and discuss implications both for practice and for theory on robust learning.

NOTE:  Please bring your own lunch!!

For those who'd like to tease Ryan with your fascinating research ideas and findings, we'll soon circulate individual meeting appointments (on May 23 & 24).

Best,
Noboru

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