PFI:AIR - TT: Commercializing an Intelligent Tutor for eLearning in Mathematics

这个PFI：空气技术翻译(TT)项目解决了K12学生学习数学的高失败率问题。这个项目关注的是智能在线导师MathSpring的技术翻译，这一点很重要，因为它为学生提供适应性和个性化的反应，并通过将学生的学习需求与有效的教学方法相匹配来进行教学。它将认知、元认知和情感学生特征的理论理解应用到每个导师的反应中。MathSpring家教也很重要，因为现在没有在线家教通过分析学生的知识和行为来回应。这个PFI：AIR-TT项目将扩大MathSpring导师的规模，并通过利用动画和人形角色的普遍吸引力在市场上提供优势，这些角色向学生讲述坚持不懈和努力的重要性。该项目还将为范围广泛的学生提供低成本、高质量的解决方案，基于学生模型的适应性辅导，旨在让学生摆脱无聊或解脱的即时口头和动画互动，以及从系统中潜在的700个问题中进行选择的能力。与课堂教学或领先的竞争技术相比，MathSpring导师的这些功能提供了更好的性能、效率和功效，主要是在这个市场空间中的演练和练习问题、讲座或游戏的视频。将这项技术转化为市场的潜在经济影响将在未来5年内对电子学习的增长率和美国在电子学习领域的竞争力做出积极贡献。由于美国每年的K-12教育支出约为6250亿美元，在这一领域产生商业和社会影响的潜力很大。潜在的结果包括：个性化的辅导老师，引导学生进入他们自己的区域或心流状态；确定目标教育市场；以及接触到任何可以访问计算机和互联网连接的学生。这个PFI项目解决了软件从研究发现转化为商业应用时的以下技术差距：识别对陷入困境的学生(例如，无聊的、没有动力的)有效的辅导老师的反应；建立足够的内容，以便老师可以在5-9年级的整个学期使用老师；以及提供工具，使教师能够根据共同核心课程选择数学问题。该项目的工作还包括强化导师，将其移植到两个平台(如Android、iOS)，并确定学校联合体(如通过地理或教育学联系在一起)以建立长期合作伙伴关系。参与该项目的人员，例如研究生和程序员，将通过努力通过特殊的学校采购程序确定途径，并传播由MathSpring可信评估产生的功效研究，从而获得创新和技术转化经验。该项目聘请CarneyLabs指导翻译的商业方面，并与弗吉尼亚州教育部(DOED)合作的非营利性公司弗吉尼亚高级研究战略(VASS)提供从研究发现到商业现实的技术翻译工作的测试环境。

This PFI: AIR Technology Translation (TT) project addresses the high failure rate of K12 students to learn mathematics. This project focuses on technology translation of an intelligent online tutor, named MathSpring, which is important because it provides adaptive and personalized responses to students and teaches by matching the learning needs of individual students with effective teaching approaches. It applies theoretical understanding of cognitive, metacognitive and affective student characteristics to each tutor response. The MathSpring Tutor is also important because no online tutor today responds by analyzing both student knowledge and behavior. This PFI:AIR-TT project will result in a scale-up of the MathSpring Tutor and provide advantages in the marketplace by capitalizing on the general appeal of animation and humanoid characters that talk to students about the importance of perseverance and effort. The project will also provide low-cost, quality solutions for a wide range of students, adaptive tutoring based on student models, just-in-time verbal and animated interactions designed to move students away from boredom or disengagement, and the capability to select from among potentially 700 problems in the system. These features of the MathSpring tutor provide improved performance, efficiency and efficacy when compared to classroom teaching or to the leading competing technology, primarily drill and practice problems, videos of lectures or games in this market space. The potential economic impact of translating this technology to the market place will positively contribute to the growth rate of eLearning within the next 5 years and to the U.S. competitiveness in the eLearning domain. Since the annual U.S. education expenditure for K-12 is approximately $625 billion, a large potential exists for making both a commercial and social impact in this space. Potential outcomes include: personalized tutors that guide students into their own zone or state of ?flow?; identification of target educational markets; and reaching any student with access to a computer and an Internet connection.This PFI project addresses the following technology gaps as the software is translated from research discovery toward commercial application: identification of tutor responses that are effective for students in distress (e.g., bored, unmotivated); building sufficient content so the tutor can be used through an entire semester in Grades 5-9; and providing tools that enable teachers to select math problem based on the Common Core curriculum. The project work also includes hardening the tutor, porting it to two platforms (e.g., Android, IOS) and identifying consortia of schools (e.g., linked by geography, or pedagogy) for long-term partnerships. Personnel involved in this project, e.g., graduate students and programmers, will receive innovation and technology translation experiences through efforts to identify paths through the idiosyncratic school procurement process and the communication of the efficacy studies arising from credible evaluation of MathSpring. The project engages CarneyLabs to guide commercial aspects of the translation and Virginia Advanced Studies Strategies (VASS), a non-profit company that works with the Virginia Department of Education (DoED), to provide a test environment in this technology translation effort from research discovery toward commercial reality.