Text comprehension and discourse processing

KR Butcher, W Kintsch - Handbook of Psychology, Second …, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
This chapter examines text comprehension and discourse processing from a cognitive
standpoint, exploring research evidence that forms the basis for what is known about how …

Self-directed learning and the sensemaking paradox

KR Butcher, T Sumner - Human–Computer Interaction, 2011 - Taylor & Francis
Educative sensemaking focuses on the needs of self-directed learners, a nonexpert
population of thinkers who must locate relevant information sources, evaluate the …

Towards automatic identification of core concepts in educational resources

MA Sultan, S Bethard, T Sumner - IEEE/ACM Joint Conference …, 2014 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Automatically identifying and extracting key ideas and concepts from educational resources
is an important but challenging computational task. We present a supervised machine …

Computational foundations for personalizing instruction with digital libraries

S de la Chica, F Ahmad, T Sumner, JH Martin… - International Journal on …, 2008 - Springer
This paper describes our progress towards automating adaptive personalized instruction
based on student conceptual understandings using digital libraries. The reported approach …

Science teachers' use of online resources and the digital library for Earth system education

LJ Barker - Proceedings of the 9th ACM/IEEE-CS joint conference …, 2009 - dl.acm.org
A three-part study of teachers' use of online resources and of the Digital Library for Earth
System Education (DLESE) was conducted from 2004 through summer 2006. The first two …

Computer-based instruction (CBI) within special education

KR Butcher, JM Jameson - Computer-assisted and web-based innovations …, 2016 - Elsevier
Computer-based instruction (CBI) has the potential to help stakeholders meet new
expectations regarding the academic achievement and educational outcomes of students …

Identifying core concepts in educational resources

JM Foster, MA Sultan, H Devaul, I Okoye… - Proceedings of the 12th …, 2012 - dl.acm.org
This paper describes the results of a study designed to assess human expert ratings of
educational concept features for use in automatic core concept extraction systems. Digital …

Educational recommendation in an informal intentional learning system

I Okoye, K Maull, J Foster, T Sumner - … Recommender Systems and …, 2012 - igi-global.com
Recommender systems have become part of the standard toolkit of web personalization.
These same tools and techniques are now making their way into educational and adaptive e …

Automatic extraction of core learning goals and generation of pedagogical sequences through a collection of digital library resources

I Okoye, T Sumner, S Bethard - Proceedings of the 13th ACM/IEEE-CS …, 2013 - dl.acm.org
A key challenge facing educational technology researchers is how to provide structure and
guidance when learners use unstructured and open tools such as digital libraries for their …

[PDF][PDF] Pedagogically useful extractive summaries for science education

S de la Chica, F Ahmad, JH Martin… - Proceedings of the 22nd …, 2008 - aclanthology.org
This paper describes the design and evaluation of an extractive summarizer for educational
science content called COGENT. COGENT extends MEAD based on strategies elicited from …