6 papers
Simulating Learners' Task-Selection Strategies and System Constraints in Mastery Learning
Haley Noh, Aarna Chowdhary, Jeroen Ooge +2
Intelligent Tutoring Systems often grant learners shared control over skill and problem selection. This choice brings motivational and metacognitive benefits. At the same time, pas…
Push and Pull in Community College Cross-Enrollment: Remoteness, Articulation, and Student Mobility
Conrad Borchers, Robin Schmucker, Ashutosh Tiwari +1
Cross-enrollment across institutions can expand access to courses and support student progression. Still, little is known about how geographic constraints and institutional policie…
From Heuristics to Analytics: Forecasting Effort and Progress in Online Learning
Eric S. Qiu, Danielle R. Thomas, Boyuan Guo +2
Sustained effort is essential for realizing the benefits of intelligent tutoring systems (ITS), yet many learners disengage or underuse available practice time. We introduce engage…
Understanding Student Effort Using Response-Time Propensities During Problem Solving
Conrad Borchers, Lijin Zhang, Kexin Yang +2
Adaptive learning systems can produce substantial learning gains, yet many students engage for too brief or too superficial a period to benefit. A central obstacle is measuring eff…
Benchmarking Educational LLMs with Analytics: A Case Study on Gender Bias in Feedback
Yishan Du, Conrad Borchers, Mutlu Cukurova
As teachers increasingly turn to GenAI in their educational practice, we need robust methods to benchmark large language models (LLMs) for pedagogical purposes. This article presen…
Toward Trait-Aware Learning Analytics
Conrad Borchers, Hannah Deininger, Zachary A. Pardos
Learning analytics (LA) draws from the learning sciences to interpret learner behavior and inform system design. Yet, past personalization remains largely at the content or perform…