Cell phone applications that enable children in the villages and slums in the developing world to acquire language and literacy in immersive, game-like en...
SimStudent is a synthetic student that learns cognitive skills from worked-out examples (i.e., demonstrated solutions) and through tutored problem-solving...
Computational Modeling and Data Mining is one of four thrusts within the Pittsburgh Science of Learning Center. This thrust is pursuing the scientific goa...
Metacognition and Motivation is one of four thrusts of the Pittsburgh Science of Learning Center. It has the goals of developing a better understanding of...
Social and Communicative Factors is one of four thrusts within the Pittsburgh Science of Learning Center. The research investigates how human linguistic i...
Cognitive Factors is one of four thrusts of the Pittsburgh Science of Learning Center. It is aimed at understanding cognitive learning—changes in knowledg...
The ACT-R project focuses on developing a robust and general cognitive architecture and applying it to the modeling of human interaction with complex dyna...
Cognitive Tutors have been successful in raising students’ math test scores in high-school and middle-school classrooms, but their development requires co...
An automated Reading Tutor displays stories on a computer screen, listens to children read aloud, adapts Carnegie Mellon’s Sphinx-II speech recognizer to ...
The Pittsburgh Science of Learning Center is leveraging computational theory and cognitive modeling to identify the instructional conditions that cause ro...
The Physics Teaching Web Advisory (Pathway) is creating a proof-of-concept demonstration of a new type of digital library for physics teaching. It brings ...
The PACT Center uses cognitive tutor technology to create an integrated classroom and computer lab curriculum that supports students’ understanding of mat...