The people behind the ASSISTment system

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

WPI Advisors

Neil Heffernan
Project Director
Neil is a co-founder of Assistments

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

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.

Dovan Rai
Yue Gong
Paul Gibler
Matt Dailey
Zach Pardos
Jozsef Patvarczki
Michael Sao Pedro
Elijah Forbes-Summers
Adam Goldstein
Yu Tao
Zach Broderick

Undergraduate Students

Programmers

Dan Mitchell Paul Siazek Ravi Singh Steve Giguere
Dan Mitchell
Paul Siazek
Ravi Singh
Steve Giguere

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

Daniel Moyer, Peter Costello, Christopher Kevorkian
Back row: Steve Giguere and Matthew Knapp. Front row: Dan Mitchel and Paul Ksiazek
Matt Crocker, Sam Moniz and Ethan Truong
Back row: Elizabeth Gould. Front row: Ruowant Li and Steven Southard

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.

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Richard Dennen
Tom Hays
Brendan Stitt
Aviv Brest
Liam Terry

North Carolina State University Team

Matthew Militello

Carnegie Mellon University/Carnegie Learning Team

Ken Koedinger Co-Founder
Director of the Carnegie Mellon University Team (PI on US Dept of Ed Grant)
Brian Junker

Past student developers

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