The Andes Physics Tutoring System: Five Years of Evaluations

  • Authors:

  • Kurt VanLehn;Collin Lynch;Kay Schulze;Joel A. Shapiro;Robert Shelby;Linwood Taylor;Don Treacy;Anders Weinstein;Mary Wintersgill

  • Affiliations:

  • LRDC, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA;LRDC, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA;Computer Science Dept., US Naval Academy, Annapolis, MD, USA;Dept. of Physics and Astronomy, Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ, USA;Physics Department, US Naval Academy, Annapolis, MD, USA;LRDC, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA;Physics Department, US Naval Academy, Annapolis, MD, USA;LRDC, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA;Physics Department, US Naval Academy, Annapolis, MD, USA

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 2005 conference on Artificial Intelligence in Education: Supporting Learning through Intelligent and Socially Informed Technology
  • Year:
  • 2005

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Abstract

Andes is a mature intelligent tutoring system that has helped hundreds of students improve their learning of university physics. It replaces pencil and paper problem solving homework. Students continue to attend the same lectures, labs and recitations. Five years of experimentation at the United States Naval Academy indicates that it significantly improves student learning. This report describes the evaluations and what was learned from them.