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Outline
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How can NLP help education?
  • Kurt VanLehn, U. of Pittsburgh


  • http://www.pitt.edu/~vanlehn/Stringent/PDF/06CS_KVL_AG.pdf
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Learning
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Comments on posters
  • Bao (Massaro et al.)
    • Multimedia tradeoffs
  • CallJ (Waple et al.)
    • What is the value of freedom?
  • Reap (Heilman et al.)
    Petersen & Ostendorf
    • Few web pages have both appropriate language and relevant content
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Learning Once More
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Student’s screen for
human tutoring and Why2/Atlas
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Experiment 1:
Intermediate students & instruction
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Experiment 1:
Intermediate students & instruction
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Experiment 4:
Novice students & intermediate instruction
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Experiment 4:
Novice students & intermediate instruction
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Experiments 6 and 7
Novice students & novice instruction
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Experiments 6 and 7
Novice students & novice instruction
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Summary of results
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Interpretation
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Generalized interpretation
  • Given
    • Content of tutoring = content of control
    • Control is not totally passive
  • If content is in the ZPD of the student
    • Then tutoring > control
    • Else tutoring = control
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Experiments where Tutoring > Control
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Learning Finally