Preface

AIED 2013 Workshops Proceedings Volume 4

AIED Workshop on Simulated Learners

Workshop Co-Chairs:

Gord McCalla

Department of Computer Science, University of Saskatchewan

John Champaign

RELATE, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

https://sites.google.com/site/aiedwsl/

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Preface

This workshop is intended to bring together researchers who are interested in simulated learners, whatever their role in the design, development, deployment, or evaluation of learning systems. Its novel aspect is that it isn’t just a workshop about pedagogical agents, but is also concerned about other roles for simulated learners in helping system designers, teachers, instructional designers, etc. As learning environments become increasingly complex and are used by growing numbers of learners (sometimes in the hundreds of thousands) and apply to a larger range of domains, the need for simulated learners (and simulation more generally) is compelling, not only to enhance these environments with artificial agents, but also to explore design issues using simulation that would be otherwise too expensive, too time consuming, or even impossible using human subjects. The workshop aims to be broadly integrative across all possible roles for simulated learners.

July, 2013 Gord McCalla & John Champaign.

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Program Committee

Co-Chair: Gord McCalla, University of Saskatchewan ([email protected])

Co-Chair: John Champaign, Massachusetts Institute of Technology ([email protected])

Esma Aimeur, Université de Montréal Roger Azvedo, McGill University Gautam Biswas, Vanderbilt University

Tak-Wai Chan, National Central University of Taiwan Robin Cohen, University of Waterloo

Ricardo Conejo, Universidad de Málaga Evandro Costa, Federal University of Alagoas

Michel C. Desmarais, Ecole Polytechnique de Montréal Sylvie Girard, Arizona State University

Lewis Johnson, Alelo

Yang Hee Kim, Utah State University James Lester, North Carolina State University Noboru Matsuda, Carnegie Mellon University Kurt VanLehn, Arizona State University

Beverly Park Woolf, University of Massachusetts, Amherst

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Table of Contents

Using Simulated Learners and Simulated Learning Environments

within a Special Education Context 1

Carrie Demmans Epp and Alexandra Makos

Simulated Students, Mastery Learning, and Improved Learning Curves

for Real-World Cognitive Tutors 11

Stephen Fancsali, Tristan Nixon, Annalies Vuong and Steven Ritter

Exploring through Simulation the Effects of Peer Impact on Learning 21 Stephanie Frost and Gordon McCalla

Using HCI Task Modeling Techniques to Measure How Deeply Students Model 31 Sylvie Girard, Lishan Zhang, Yoalli Hidalgo-Pontet, Kurt Vanlehn,

Winslow Burleson, Maria Elena Chavez-Echeagary and Javier Gonzalez-Sanchez

Validating Item Response Theory Models in Simulated Environments 41 Manuel Hernando, Eduardo Guzmán and Ricardo Conejo

Toward a reflective SimStudent:

Using experience to avoid generalization errors 51 Christopher MacLellan, Noboru Matsuda and Kenneth Koedinger

Towards Moment of Learning Accuracy 61

Zachary Pardos and Michael Yudelson

Impact of Prior Knowledge and Teaching Strategies on Learning by Teaching 71 Ma. Mercedes T. Rodrigo, Aaron Ong, Rex P. Bringula, Roselle S. Basa,

Cecilio Dela Cruz and Noboru Matsuda