Search results for author:"Steven Tanimoto"
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Image Analysis and Teaching the Concept of Function
Steven Tanimoto
World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2001 (2001) pp. 1867–1872
The concept of function is key for understanding algebra and all higher mathematics. Using digital images and image processing, it is possible to introduce the concept of function in new ways which has the potential to be more compelling and...
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A Generic Pedagogical Agent Architecture That Supports Conversational Authoring
Jeremy Baer; Steven Tanimoto
World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2000 (2000) pp. 1588–1589
Pedagogical agents offer great promise to improve the learning experience of students interacting with educational software systems. This paper describes work in progress on a generic pedagogical agent architecture and an authoring system to...
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Faring with Facets: Building and Using Databases of Student Misconceptions
Tara Madhyastha; Steven Tanimoto
Journal of Interactive Media in Education Vol. 2009, No. 1 (2009)
A number of educational researchers have developed pedagogical approaches that involve the teacher in discovering and helping to correct misconceptions that students bring to their study of their subject matter. During the last decade, several...
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Distributed Transcripts for Online Learning: Design Issues
Steven L. Tanimoto
Journal of Interactive Media in Education Vol. 2 (2001)
Presents a set of guiding principles for the development of standards for representing student educational assessment information. Identifies essential informational components of alternative assessment records and suggests a standard form for their ...
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Student Consistency and Implications for Feedback in Online Assessment Systems
Tara M. Madhyastha; Steven Tanimoto
International Conference on Educational Data Mining (EDM) 2009 (July 2009)
Most of the emphasis on mining online assessment logs has been to identify content-specific errors. However, the pattern of general "consistency" is domain independent, strongly related to performance, and can itself be a target of educational data...
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Learning Mathematics Through Image Processing: Constructing Cylindrical Anamorphoses
Steven Tanimoto; James King; Richard Rice
International Conference on Mathematics / Science Education and Technology 2000 (2000) pp. 381–386
Anamorphic images are distorted images that can be seen normally when viewed in special ways. A very popular form of anamorphosis in the 1700s and 1800s is a type of image that is intended to be viewed by placing a cylindrical mirror in the middle ...
Topics: Computers, Mathematics
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Reusing Web Documents in Tutorials With the Current-Documents Assumption: Automatic Validation of Updates
David B. Johnson; Steven L. Tanimoto
World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 1999 (1999) pp. 74–79
This paper, based on the first author's Ph.D. dissertation describes an experimental system for authoring and delivering tutorials on the web under the assumption that the system should deliver the latest versions of the selected documents, even...
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Computer Support for Unobtrusive Assessment of Conceptual Knowledge as Evidenced in Newsgroup Postings.
Steven Tanimoto; Adam Carlson; Earl Hunt; David Madigan; Jim Minstrell
World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2000 (2000) pp. 1755–1756
As the Internet brings new means of presenting information to learners, the need for meaningful assessment increases. We describe the design and development of a computer tool to facilitate a particular form of assessment that can be meaningful in ...
Topics: Assessment
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Colt: A System for Developing Software that Supports Synchronous Collaborative Activities
Marla J. Bennett; Emi Fujioka; Steven L. Tanimoto; Lauren J. Bricker
EdMedia + Innovate Learning 1999 (1999) pp. 587–592
This paper presents Colt, a system for the development of applications that support close collaboration between two or more users. The Colt system has three parts: a design methodology, a software toolkit, and additional tools for visualization...
Topics: Software, Collaboration