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SketchWorksheets: A Brief Summary

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The Impact of Pen and Touch Technology on Education

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Sketch worksheets are a new kind of sketch-based education software designed to facilitate spatial learning. Each worksheet represents a particular exercise, which the student does on a computer. Students get feedback, based on automatic comparison of their sketch with a hidden solution sketch. A software gradebook, which uses scoring rubrics in the solution sketch, is intended to help instructors in grading. Sketch worksheets have been used in classroom experiments with college students, high school students, and middle-school students. They are domain-independent, requiring only that the exercise involves visual distinctions that the software can understand. They rely on cognitive models of human visual/spatial representations and a model of human analogical matching. An authoring environment enables domain instructors to create new sketch worksheets on their own. CogSketch is freely available for download.

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CogSketch is being developed by the NSF-sponsored Spatial Intelligence and Learning Center, and is freely available on-line.

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  1. Qualitative Reasoning Group, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, USA

    Kenneth D. Forbus, Jeffrey Usher & Maria Chang

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  1. Kenneth D. Forbus
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Correspondence to Kenneth D. Forbus .

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  1. Department of Computer Science & Engineering, Texas A&M University, Sketch Recognition Lab, College Station, Texas, USA

    Tracy Hammond

  2. Department of Computer Science & Engineering, Texas A&M University, Sketch Recognition Lab, College Station, Texas, USA

    Stephanie Valentine

  3. Raytheon BBN Technologies, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA

    Aaron Adler

  4. Dept. Information Technology, Whitfield School, St. Louis, Missouri, USA

    Mark Payton

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Forbus, K., Usher, J., Chang, M. (2015). SketchWorksheets: A Brief Summary. In: Hammond, T., Valentine, S., Adler, A., Payton, M. (eds) The Impact of Pen and Touch Technology on Education. Human–Computer Interaction Series. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-15594-4_10

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