Intelligent tutoring systems (ITSs) are computerized learning environments that incorporate
computational models from the cognitive sciences, learning sciences, computational …

This chapter reviews research on human tutoring, a form of one-on-one instruction between
a tutor and a tutee. In most cases the tutor is knowledgeable about the subject matter and …

Intelligent Tutoring System (ITSs) implement many affordances of digital technologies that
were articulated in the National Academy of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine report …

How do people learn in subject areas, such as reading, writing, mathematics, science, and
history, and how can we help people learn, using instructional methods such as feedback …

We present Guru, an intelligent tutoring system for high school biology that has
conversations with students, gestures and points to virtual instructional materials, and …

One-to-one tutoring is an extremely effective method for producing learning gains in
students and for contributing to greater understanding and positive attitudes towards …

We present a method to automatically detect collaborative patterns of student and tutor
dialogue moves. The method identifies significant two-step excitatory transitions between …

We explored the possibility of predicting student emotions (boredom, flow/engagement,
confusion, and frustration) by analyzing the text of student and tutor dialogues during …

Metacognition can be described as “a critical analysis of thought,”“knowledge and cognition
about cognitive phenomena”(Flavell, 1979), or simply “thinking about thinking.” It can focus …

This chapter reviews our past and ongoing investigations into conversational interaction
during human tutoring and our attempts to build intelligent tutoring systems (ITS) to simulate …