Tuesday, March 13, 2012

What am I going to do?

This is a slightly adjusted schedule from the one posted earlier in the semester. I've moved what should have been done in week 5 and week 6 together into one group and taken out the readings by H. Russel Bernard. Instead I'm going to read:

Learning Factors Analysis – A General Method for Cognitive Model Evaluation and Improvement, by Hao Cen, Kenneth Koedinger, Brian Junker.

Abstract: A cognitive model is a set of production rules or skills encoded in
intelligent tutors to model how students solve problems. It is usually generated
by brainstorming and iterative refinement between subject experts, cognitive
scientists and programmers. In this paper we propose a semi-automated method
for improving a cognitive model called Learning Factors Analysis that
combines a statistical model, human expertise and a combinatorial search. We
use this method to evaluate an existing cognitive model and to generate and
evaluate alternative models. We present improved cognitive models and make
suggestions for improving the intelligent tutor based on those models.

Hopefully this article will provide me with the potential implications the research I do might have as well as give me some ideas of what specifically I could study to see the factors of learning in action.

I'm open to other articles as well, and shall probably look for other them during the up and coming week.

Below is the adjusted schedule.


Meeting 6 (Mar. 28th): Brain storm and Precipitate
Research potential observation or testing methods, and potential applications of further research in this area. Write a short paper (2-4 pages) on what these might be, suitable to be inserted in the methods, and conclusion of a paper. Email three professionals (probably within CMU) and ask if they would be willing to read through the paper.

Meeting 7 (April 11th): Back to the beginning
Write Background information of introduction and have proof read by three professionals. Final draft of question should be completed.

Meeting 8 (April 25th): Looking ahead
Smooth out kinks and make adjustments to final paper, prepare to fill out HON 499 paper work.



"Imagination is more important than knowledge." & "The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education."

Albert Einstein

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