Collection

2014 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

Authors

Beverly Woolf; Enid Sichel; Mark Floryan

systems that reason about domain knowledgeand diagnose student problems, to produce detailed analyses Figure 5. Students collaborate to answer the software questions related to circuit analysis.of student utterances and generate automatic feedback.CycleTalk, built upon the CyclePad simulation environment(above), investigated novel ways of using tutorial dialogue toteach thermodynamics [11]. The system empirically evaluateddialogue that invited students to negotiate problem-solvinggoals. For example, the system asked student to “do you thinkit is a good idea for the . . . temperature to be increased andkept high?” or “What happens to the steam quality if youincrease the maximum temperature?” Empirical resultsprovide strong evidence in favor

Collection

2014 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

Authors

Teresa Piliouras; Pui Lam Yu; Kristin Villanueva; Holly Robillard; Yingxin Chen; Michael Berson; Jeanne R. Lauer; Garret Sampel; Daniel Lapinski; Maigh Attre

– personal responsibility, self-esteem,college preparatory, magnet high school that offers its students atechnology-rich learning environment. Its culture and climate sociability, self-management, integrity, and honesty;fosters innovation that goes beyond the classroom. For example, • Thinking skills – creativity, decision-making, problem-a collaborative effort with AITE led to the creation of an online solving, learning ability, visualization skills, andlearning program – Best We Can Be – that engenders learning by reasoning ability;facilitating supportive interpersonal networks between students