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

这个PFI：AIR技术翻译（TT）项目解决了K12学生学习数学的高失败率。 该项目的重点是智能在线导师MathSpring的技术翻译，这很重要，因为它为学生提供了自适应和个性化的响应，并通过将个别学生的学习需求与有效的教学方法相匹配来进行教学。它将对学生认知、元认知和情感特征的理论理解应用于每个导师的回应。MathSpring导师也很重要，因为今天没有在线导师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，向学生讲述毅力和努力的重要性，在市场上提供优势。该项目还将为广泛的学生提供低成本，高质量的解决方案，基于学生模型的自适应辅导，旨在使学生远离无聊或脱离的即时口头和动画交互，以及从系统中潜在的700个问题中选择的能力。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训练和练习问题，讲座或游戏视频。 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。由于美国每年用于K-12的教育支出约为6250亿美元，因此在这一领域存在巨大的商业和社会影响潜力。 潜在的成果包括：个性化的导师，引导学生进入自己的区域或状态？流动？PFI项目解决了以下技术差距，因为该软件从研究发现转化为商业应用：识别对处于困境中的学生有效的导师反应（例如，无聊，无动力）;建立足够的内容，使导师可以通过整个学期在5-9年级使用;并提供工具，使教师能够选择基于共同核心课程的数学问题。项目工作还包括加强导师，将其移植到两个平台（例如，Android、IOS）和确定学校联盟（例如，地理位置或教学方法联系在一起）建立长期伙伴关系。参与本项目的人员，例如：研究生和程序员，将通过努力通过特殊的学校采购过程和MathSpring的可信评估所产生的功效研究的沟通来确定路径，从而获得创新和技术翻译经验。该项目聘请了Virginia Advanced Studies Strategies（VASS），一家与弗吉尼亚教育部（DoED）合作的非营利性公司，为这项从研究发现到商业现实的技术翻译工作提供测试环境。

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.