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Assistments is a joint collaboration between Worcester Polytechnic Institute and Carnegie-Mellon University.

See the awards honoring the builders of ASSISTments

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WPI's Learning Sciences and Technologies Graduate Program is always looking for good students.

WPI Advisors

Neil Heffernan Project Director and Co-Founder Professor of Computer Science Director of the PhD Program in Learning Sciences and Technologies

Other WPI Faculty Involved In Learning Sciences and Technology


Joseph Beck	Janice Gobert	Ryan Baker

The WPI Assistments Team


Cristina Heffernan Co-Founder	Tricia Desmarais	David Magid

Graduate Students


Dovan Rai	Yue Gong	Paul Kehrer

Zach Pardos	Jozsef Patvarczki

Yu Tao	Corey Belhumeur	Brian Hobbs

Skyler Whorton	Joshua Bodah

Fourteen members from the Math and Science ASSISTments projects presented at the Intelligent Tutoring Systems Conference and the Educational Data Mining Conferences, both held in Pittsburgh in 2010. Front row is Dr. Mingyu Feng (now at SRI), Yu Tao Wang, Dr Leena Razzaq (now a post-doc at UMASS-Amherst), and Dovan Rai. Second Row is Yue Gong, Professor Janice Gobert, Professor Joe Beck, Professor Ryan Baker, and Adam Goldstein. Back Row is Matt Dailey, Matt Bachmann, Professor Heffernan, Mike Sao Pedro, and Zach Pardos.

Some of the Data Mining Team

The above students are Xiaolu, Shubhendu, Bahador, Qingyang, Zach and Professor Heffernan celebrating all of them getting papers acceccepted at the Educational Data Mining Confrence and the Knowledge and Discovery Data minng (KDD) conference. Two female student Yue Gong and Yu Tao were in China when this picture was taken.

Undergraduate Students

Programmers

IQP

There have been over 30 WPI undergraduates that have contributed to the project, mainly in the way of creating content for the system while they simultaneously conduct an interesting cognitive science experiment. One of these IQPs (as they are called at WPI) was recently published at the prestigious Cognitive Science 2009 Conference Click here to view the IQP

Some of these IQP reports can be found here at the WPI library

IQP 2011-12

ARRS


Quinten Palmer	Alex Birch

Accuplacer IQP


Mika Ayenson	Mat Ferreira	Linahi Zhu

Work Study

There have also been several WPI undergraduate students working on the project as part of their federal work study. Here are some of the current work study students.