Kurt VanLehn
Professor in the Computer
Science Department, University of Pittsburgh
Co-Director of Pittsburgh Center of the
Science of Learning
Senior Scientist at the Learning Research
and Development Center
Secondary appointments in the Intelligent
Systems Program and the Department
of Psychology
Research Areas
- Learning
science
- Cognitive
science
- Artificial
Intelligence
- Intelligent
tutoring systems
- Cognitive
modeling
- Embedded
assessment
Current group projects
Current post-doc projects
- Scotty Craig:
- Does
studying a video of a tutoring session cause more learning than studying
a video of a lecture/demonstration, especially when studying in pairs?
- Does
inserting deep, rhetorical questions into videos of a
lecture/demonstration increase learning?
- Robert Hausmann:
- Is
self-explaining more effective when done by pairs of students than when
done alone?
- Is
self-explanation more effective because of the “self” (the
generation process) or the “explanation” (the content)?
Current graduate student projects
- Min Chi: Does teaching an explicit
problem solving strategy in one domain (probability) accelerate learning
in a second domain (physics)?
- Roxana Gheorghiu: Can Excel
support effective physics tutoring?
- Sung-Young Jung: Is the Pyrenees tutoring system applicable and effective in
multiple task domains, besides physics and probability?
- Michael Ringenberg:
- Can
ill-structured problem solving be tutored?
- During
tutoring, does replacing just-in-time hints with
just-in-time examples increase learning?
Completed projects with web pages
Teaching
Contact information
- Email:
my last name followed by @ cs<dot>pitt<dot>edu
- Office:
Room 740, LRDC, 3939 O’Hara St., University of Pittsburgh,
Pittsburgh, PA 15260, USA
- Office
phone: (412) 624-7458
- FAX:
(412) 624-7904
Last update: June, 2007