Vasile Rus

Encouraged by the effectiveness of one-on-one human tutoring, computer tutors that mimic human tutors have been built successfully with the hope that a computer tutor could be afforded by every child with access to a computer. The development of state-of-the-art computer tutors with natural language dialogue has been inspired primarily from studies of typical, non-expert human tutors. The proposed project will develop and test an innovative intelligent tutoring system (ITS) that intends to ...

The research team will develop and pilot test a novel education technology called iCODE (improve source CODE comprehension). Code comprehension is a critical skill for both learners and professionals. iCODE will integrate reading strategies training, animated pedagogical agents, inclusive and culturally responsive instructional design, and the open pro-social learner model to improve code comprehension and learning and student engagement, self-efficacy, computer science (CS) identity, and re...