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Example-Based Problem Solving Support Using Concept Analysis of Programming Content

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Intelligent Tutoring Systems (ITS 2014)

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This paper presents two different approaches to example-based problem solving support in the domain of programming based on concept analysis of the learning content. The goal of these approaches is to offer students a set of most relevant remedial examples when they have trouble solving a problem. The paper reviews earlier work and introduces a global and a local approach for selecting examples that are similar to the problem in terms of concept coverage and structure of the content, respectively. It also reports results of a lab study conducted to explore the effectiveness of each approach.

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  1. University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA

    Roya Hosseini & Peter Brusilovsky

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  1. Roya Hosseini
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  1. Computer Science Department, University Politehnica of Bucharest, Splaiul Independentei 313, 060042, Bucharest, Romania

    Stefan Trausan-Matu

  2. North Carolina State University, 890 Oval Dr., Campus Box 8206, 27695-8206, Raleigh, NC, USA

    Kristy Elizabeth Boyer

  3. Department of Information and Computer Sciences, University of Hawaii, 1680 East-West Road, POST 317, 96822, Honolulu, HI, USA

    Martha Crosby

  4. Neoanalysis Ltd., Marni 56, 10437, Athens, Greece

    Kitty Panourgia

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Hosseini, R., Brusilovsky, P. (2014). Example-Based Problem Solving Support Using Concept Analysis of Programming Content. In: Trausan-Matu, S., Boyer, K.E., Crosby, M., Panourgia, K. (eds) Intelligent Tutoring Systems. ITS 2014. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 8474. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-07221-0_106

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