Showing Automatically Generated Students' Conceptual Models to Students and Teachers

Diana Perez-Marin; Ismael Pascual-Nieto

International Journal of Artificial Intelligence in Education Vol. 20, No. 1 (2010) pp. 47–72

A student conceptual model can be defined as a set of interconnected concepts associated with an estimation value that indicates how well these concepts are used by the students. It can model just one student or a group of students, and can be...

A Case Study on the Use of Blended Learning to Encourage Computer Science Students to Study

Diana Perez-Marin; Ismael Pascual-Nieto

Journal of Science Education and Technology Vol. 21, No. 1 (February 2012) pp. 74–82

Students tend to procrastinate. In particular, Computer Science students tend to reduce the number of hours devoted to study concepts after class. In this paper, a case study on the use of Blended Learning to encourage Computer Science students to...

An Exploratory Study on How Children Interact with Pedagogic Conversational Agents

Diana Pérez-Marín; Ismael Pascual-Nieto

Behaviour & Information Technology Vol. 32, No. 9 (2013) pp. 955–964

A pedagogic conversational agent (PCA) can be defined as a computer system that interacts with the student in natural language assuming the role of the instructor, a student or a companion. It can have a personality and can generate different...

Topics: Personality, Children