Publications: 2017/2018
Books
Sottilare, R., Graesser, A.C., Hu, X., & Sinatra, A. (Eds.)(2018). Design Recommendations for Intelligent Tutoring Systems: Team Tutoring (Vol. 6). Orlando, FL: U.S. Army Research Laboratory. Link to PDF
Sottilare, R., Graesser, A., Hu, X., and Goodwin, G. (Eds.). (2017) Design Recommendations for Intelligent Tutoring Systems: Volume 5 - Assessment Methods. Orlando, FL: U.S. Army Research Laboratory. Link to PDF
Refereed Journal Publications (Does not include book chapters)
Craig, S.D., Graesser, A.C., & Perez, R.S. (2018). Advances from Office of Naval Research STEM grand challenge: Expanding the boundaries of intelligent tutoring systems. International Journal of STEM Education, 5:15, 1-4. Link to PDF
Fiore, S.M., Graesser, A.C., & Greiff, S. (2018). Collaborative problem solving education for the 21st century workforce. Nature Human Behavior, 2, 367–369. Link to PDF
Graesser, A.C., A.C., Fiore, S.M., Greiff, S., Andrews-Todd, J., Foltz, P.W., & Hesse, F.W. (2018). Advancing the science of collaborative problem solving. Psychological Science in the Public Interest, 19, 59-92. Link to PDF
Graesser, A.C., Hu, X., Nye, B.D., VanLehn, K., Kumar, R., Heffernan, C., Heffernan, N., Woolf, B., Olney, A.M., Rus, V., Andraskik, F., Pavlik, P., Cai, Z., Wetzel, J., Morgan, B., Hampton, A.J., Lippert, A.M., Wang, L., Cheng, Q., Vinsen, J.E., Kelly, C.N., McGlown, C., Majmudar, C.A., Morshed, B., & Baer, W. (2018). ElectronixTutor: An intelligent tutoring system with multiple learning resources. International Journal of STEM Education, 5:15, 1-21. Link to PDF
Joksimović, S., Dowell, N., Poquet, O., Kovanović, V., Gašević, D., Dawson, S., & Graesser, A. C. (2018). Exploring development of social capital in a CMOOC through language and discourse. The Internet and Higher Education, 36, 54-64. Link to PDF
Joksimović, S., Poquet, O., Kovanović, V., Dowell, N. M., Mills, C., Gašević, D., Dawson, S., Graesser, A. C., & Brooks, C. (2018). How do we model learning at scale? A systematic review of the literature. Review of Educational Research, 88, 43-86. Link to PDF
Li, H., Cai, Z., & Graesser, A.C. (2018). Computerized summary scoring: Crowdsourcing-based latent semantic analysis. Behavioral Research Method, 50, 2144–2161. doi: 10.3758/s13428-017-0982-7 Link to PDF
Li, H., Gobert, J. & Graesser, A. C., & Dickler, R. (2018). Advanced educational technology for science inquiry assessment. Policy Insights from the Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 5, 171-178. doi: 10.1177/2372732218790017 Link to PDF
Shi, G., Lippert, A.M., Shubert, K., Fang, Y., Chen, S., Pavlik, P., Greenberg, D., & Graesser, A.C. (2018). Exploring an intelligent tutoring system as a conversation-based assessment tool for reading comprehension. Behaviormetrika, 45, 615-633. Link to PDF
Sottilare, R.A., Baker, R.S., Graesser, A.C., & Lester, J.C. (2018). Special issue on the Generalized Intelligent Framework for Tutoring (GIFT): Creating a stable and flexible platform for innovation in AIED research. International Journal of Artificial Intelligence in Education, 28, 139-151. Link to PDF
Graesser, A.C., Forsyth, C., & Lehman, B. (2017). Two heads are better than one: Learning from agents in conversational trialogues. Teacher College Record, 119, 1-20. Link to PDF
Graesser, A.C., Cai, Z., Morgan, B., Wang, L. (2017). Assessment with computer agents that engage in conversational dialogues and trialogues with learners. Computers in Human Behavior. Link to PDF
Li, H., Cai, Z., & Graesser, A.C. (2017). Computerized summary scoring: Crowdsourcing-based latent semantic analysis. Behavioral Research Methods, 1-18. Link to PDF
Li, H., Graesser, A.C., & Gobert, J. (2017). Where is embodiment hidden in the intelligent tutoring system? Journal of South China Normal University, 3, 79-91. Link to PDF
Millis, K., Forsyth, C., Wallace, P., Graesser, A,C., & Timmins, G. (2017). The impact of game-like features on learning from an intelligent tutoring system. Technology, Knowledge, and Learning, 22, 1-22. Link to PDF
Graesser, A., Kuo, B.C., & Liao, C.H. (2017). Complex problem solving in assessments of collaborative problem solving. Journal of Intelligence, 5(2), 10. Link to PDF
Mills, C., Graesser, A., Risko, E. F., & D'Mello, S. K. (2017). Cognitive coupling during reading. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 146(6), 872. Link to PDF
Windsor, L. C., Dowell, N. M., Windsor, A., Kaltner, J., & Graesser, A. C. (2017). Leader language and survival strategies in the Arab Spring. International Interactions, 44(2), 321 – 336. Link to PDF
Book Chapters
Cai, Z., Hampton, A.J., Graesser, A.C., Hu, X., Cockroft, J.L., Shaffer, D.W., & Dorneich, M.C. (2018). Roles of talking agents in online collaborative learning environments. In R.A. Sottilare, A.C. Graesser, X. Hu, & A.M. Sinatra (Eds.). Design Recommendations for Intelligent Tutoring Systems: Team Tutoring (Vol. 6)(pp. 169-178). Orlando, FL: U.S. Army Research Laboratory. Link PDF
Graesser, A.C., Hu, X., & Sottilare, R. (2018). Intelligent tutoring systems. In F. Fischer, C. E. Hmelo-Silver, S. R. Goldman, and P. Reimann (Eds.), International handbook of the learning sciences (pp. 246-255). New York: Routledge. Link to PDF
Graesser, A.C., Dowell, N., Hampton, A.J., Lippert, A.M., Li, H., & Shaffer, D.W. (2018). Building intelligent conversational tutors and mentors for team collaborative problem solving: Guidance from the 2015 Program for International Student Assessment. In J. J. Johnston, R. Sottilare, A. Sinatra, and C. S. Burke (Ed.). RMGT 19: Building intelligent tutoring systems for teams: What matters (pp. 173-211). Emerald Publishing: West Yorkshire, UK. Link to PDF
Graesser, A.C., Foltz, P.W., Rosen, Y., Shaffer, D.W., Forsyth, C., and Germany, M. (2018). Challenges of assessing collaborative problem solving. In E. Care, P. Griffin, and M. Wilson (eds.), Assessment and Teaching of 21st Century Skills (pp. 75-91). Heidelberg, Germany: Springer Publishers. Link to PDF
Graesser, A.C., Nixon, T.M., Hampton, A.J., Franklin, S.E., & Love, J.B. (2018). Via: Using GOMS to improve authorware for a virtual internship environment. In R.D. Roscoe, S.D. Craig, and I. Douglas (Eds.), End-user considerations in educational technology design (pp. 205-216). Herschey, PA: IGA Global. Link to PDF
Hao, J., Zapata-Rivera, D., Graesser, A.C., Cai, Z., Hu, X., & Goldberg, B. (2018). Towards an intelligent tutoring framework: Responding to human sentiments. In R.A. Sottilare, A.C. Graesser, X. Hu, & A.M. Sinatra (Eds.). Design Recommendations for Intelligent Tutoring Systems: Team Tutoring (Vol. 6)(pp. 151-160). Orlando, FL: U.S. Army Research Laboratory. Link to PDF
Hu, X., Dowell, N., Cai, Z., Graesser, A.C., Shi, G., Cockroft, J.L., & Shorter, P. (2018). Constructing individual conversation characteristics curves (ICCC) for interactive intelligent tutoring environments. In R.A. Sottilare, A.C. Graesser, X. Hu, & A.M. Sinatra (Eds.). Design Recommendations for Intelligent Tutoring Systems: Team Tutoring (Vol. 6)(pp. 133-145). Orlando, FL: U.S. Army Research Laboratory. Link to Book
Shubeck, K. T., Fang, Y., Hampton, A., Morgan, B., Hu, X., & Graesser, A. C. (2018). Embedding effective teaching strategies in intelligent tutoring systems. In S. D. Craig (Ed.), Tutoring and Intelligent Tutoring Systems (pp. 129-156). Hauppauge, NY: Nova Science Publishers, Inc. Link to PDF
Sottilare, R.A., Graesser, A.C., Hu, X., & Sinatra, A. (2018). Introduction to team tutoring and GIFT. In R.A. Sottilare, A.C. Graesser, X. Hu, & A.M. Sinatra (Eds.). Design Recommendations for Intelligent Tutoring Systems: Team Tutoring (Vol. 6)(pp. 1-17). Orlando, FL: U.S. Army Research Laboratory. Link to Book
Graesser, A.C., Greenberg, D., Olney, A.M., & Lovett, M.W. (2017). Educational technologies that support reading comprehension for adults who have low literacy skills. In D. Perin (Ed). Wiley adult literacy handbook . New York: Wiley. Link to PDF
Graesser, A.C. (2017). Reflections on serious games. In H. van Oostendorp and P. Wouters (Eds.) Instructional techniques to facilitate learning and motivation of serious games (pp. 199-212). AG, Switzerland, Springer. Link to PDF
Graesser, A.C., Cai, Z., Hu, X., Foltz, P.W., Greiff, S, Kuo, B-C. Liao, C-H. , and Shaffer, D.W. (2017). Assessment of collaborative problem solving. In R. Sottilare, A. Graesser, X. Hu, & G. Goodwin (Eds.), Design Recommendations for Intelligent Tutoring Systems: Volume 5 - Assessment. Orlando, FL: U.S. Army Research Laboratory. Link to PDF
Graesser, A.C., Dowell, N., & Clewley, D. (2017). Assessing collaborative problem solving through conversational agents. In A. Von Davier, M. Zhu, and P,C. Kyllonen (Eds)., Innovative assessment of collaboration (pp. 65-80). New York: Springer. Link to PDF
Graesser, A.C., Feng, S., & Cai, Z. (2017). Two technologies to help adults with reading difficulties improve their comprehension. In E. Segers and P. Van den Broek (Eds.), Developmental perspectives in written language and literacy. In honor of Ludo Verhoeven (pp. 295-313). John Benjamin Publishing Company. Link to Book
Graesser, A.C., Forsyth, C.M., & Foltz, P. (2017). Assessing conversation quality, reasoning, and problem solving performance with computer agents. In B. Csapo, J. Funke, and A. Schleicher (Eds.), On the nature of problem solving: A look behind PISA 2012 problem solving assessment (pp. 245-261). Heidelberg, Germany: OECD Series. Link to PDF
Graesser, A.C., Rus, V., Hu, X. (2017). Instruction based on tutoring. In R.E. Mayer and P.A. Alexander (Eds.), Handbook of Research on Learning and Instruction (pp. 460-482). New York: Routledge Press. Link to Book
Greiff, S., Scheiter, K., Scherer, R., Borgonovi, F., Britt, A., Graesser, A., Kitajima, M., & Rouet, J. F. (2017). Adaptive problem solving: Moving towards a new assessment domain in the second cycle of PIAAC. OECD Education Working Papers, (156). Link to PDF
Graesser, A.C., Dowell, N., Hampton, A.J., Lippert, A.M., Li, H., & Shaffer, D.W. (2018). Building intelligent conversational tutors and mentors for team collaborative problem solving: Guidance from the 2015 Program for International Student Assessment. In J. J. Johnston, R. Sottilare, A. Sinatra, and C. S. Burke (Ed.). RMGT 19: Building intelligent tutoring systems for teams: What matters. Emerald Publishing: West Yorkshire, UK.Link to PDF
Graesser, A.C., Foltz, P.W., Rosen, Y., Shaffer, D.W., Forsyth, C., and Germany, M. (2018). Challenges of assessing collaborative problem solving. In E. Care, P. Griffin, and M. Wilson (eds.), Assessment and Teaching of 21st Century Skills (pp. 75-91). Heidelberg, Germany: Springer Publishers. Link to Book
Graesser, A.C., Greenberg, D., Olney, A.M., & Lovett, M.W. (2018). Educational technologies that support reading comprehension for adults who have low literacy skills. In D. Perin (Ed). Wiley adult literacy handbook . New York: Wiley. Link to Book
Graesser, A.C., Nixon, T.M., Hampton, A.J., Franklin, S.E., & Love, J.B. (2018). Via: Using GOMS to improve authorware for a virtual internship environment. In R.D. Roscoe, S.D. Craig, and I. Douglas (Eds.), End-user considerations in educational technology design (pp. 205-216). Herschey, PA: IGA Global. Link to PDF
Refereed Conference Publications and Abstracts
Cai, Z., Graesser, A.C., Windsor, L., Cheng, Q., Shaffer, D.W., & Hu, X. (2018). Impact of corpus size and dimensionality of LSA spaces from Wikipedia articles on AutoTutor answer evaluation. In K.E. Boyer & M. Yudelson(Eds.), Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Educational Data Mining (pp.127-136). Buffalo, NY: EDM Society. Link to PDF
Cai, Z., Swiecki, Z., Eagan, B., Hu, X., Graesser, A.C., & Shaffer, D.W. (2018) Suggesting keywords for automated discourse analysis using LSA nearest neighbors. Presentation at the Forty-eighth annual meeting of the society for computer in psychology, New Orleans.
Cheng, K., Cai, Z., & Graesser, A.C. (2018). An Improved Assessment Model for AutoTutor Answer Grading. Presentation at the Forty-eighth annual meeting of the society for computer in psychology, New Orleans.
Carmon, C., Morgan, B., Hampton, A. J., Cai, Z., & Graesser, A. C. (2018). Semantic matching evaluation in ElectronixTutor. In K. E. Boyer, & M. Yudelson (Eds.) Proceedings of educational data mining 2018 (pp. 580–583). Buffalo, NY. Link to PDF
Fang, Y., Shubeck, K.T., Lippert, A., Cheng,Q., Shi, G., Feng, S., Gatewood, J., Chen, S., Cai, Z., Pavlik, P. I., Frijters, J.C., Greenberg, D., Graesser, A. C. (2018). Clustering the Learning Patterns of Adults with Low Literacy Interacting with an Intelligent Tutoring System. In K.E. Boyer & M. Yudelson ( Eds.), Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Educational Data Mining (pp.348-354). Buffalo, NY: Educational Data Mining Society. Link to PDF
Hampton, A. J., Nye, B. D., Pavlik, P. I., Swartout, W. R., Graesser, A. C., & Gunderson, J. (2018). Mitigating knowledge decay from instruction with voluntary use of an adaptive learning system. In C. P. Rosé, R. Martínez-Maldonado, H. U. Hoppe, R. Luckin, M. Mavrikis, K. Porayska-Pomsta, B. McLaren, & B. du Boulay (Eds.) Proceedings of the 2018 Artificial Intelligence in Education Conference (pp. 119-133). London, England. Link to PDF
Lippert, A., Gatewood, J., Fang, Y., Shi, G., Cheng, Q., & Cai, Z. (2018). Recognition memory for the structure and meaning of text in adult readers with high and low levels of literacy. Presentation at the Forty-eighth annual meeting of the society for computer in psychology, New Orleans.
Cai, Z., Hu, X., Shubeck, K., Bai, K., Graesser, A. C., Kuo, B., & Liao, C. (2017). AutoTutor tutorial: Authoring conversational intelligent systems. In E. Andre, R. Baker, X. Hu, M. Rodrigo, B. du Boulay (Eds), International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Education (pp.669-670). Cham, Switzerland: Springer. Link to PDF
Cai, Z., Pennebaker, J. W., Eagan, B., Shaffer, D. W., Dowell, N. M., & Graesser, A. C. (2017). Epistemic network analysis and topic modeling for chat data from a collaborative learning environment. In X. Hu, T. Barnes, A. Hershkovitz, L. Paquette (Eds), Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Educational Data Mining (pp.104-111). Wuhan, China: EDM Society. Link to PDF
Fang, Y., Xu, Y. J., Nye, B., Graesser, A., Pavlik, P., & Hu, X. (2017). Online learning persistence and academic achievement. In X. Hu, T. Barnes, A. Hershkovitz, L. Paquette (Eds), Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Educational Data Mining (pp.312-317). Wuhan, China: EDM Society. Link to PDF
Forsyth, C. M. , Peters, S., Zapata-Rivera D., Lentini, J., Graesser, A. C., & Cai, Z. (2017). Interactive score reporting: An AutoTutor-based system for teachers. In E. Andre, R. Baker, X. Hu, M. Rodrigo, B. du Boulay (Eds), International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Education (pp.506-509). Cham, Switzerland: Springer. Link to PDF
Gautam, D., Swiecki, Z., Shaffer, D. W., Graesser, A. C., & Rus, V. (2017). Modeling classifiers for virtual internships without participant data. In X. Hu, T. Barnes, A. Hershkovitz, L. Paquette (Eds), Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Educational Data Mining (pp.278-283). Wuhan, China: EDM Society. Link to PDF
Li, H. & Graesser, A. C. (2017). Impact of pedagogical agents’ conversational formality on learning and engagement. In E. Andre, R. Baker, X. Hu, M. Rodrigo, B. du Boulay (Eds), International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Education (pp.188-200). Cham, Switzerland: Springer. Link to PDF
Olney, A. M., Bakhtiari, D., Greenberg, D., & Graesser, A. (2017). Assessing Computer Literacy of Adults with Low Literacy Skills. In X. Hu, T. Barnes, A. Hershkovitz, L. Paquette (Eds), Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Educational Data Mining (pp.128-134). Wuhan, China: EDM Society. Link to PDF
Olney, A., Hosman, E., Graesser, A., D'Mello, S. (2017). Tracking online reading of college students. In X. Hu, T. Barnes, A. Hershkovitz, L. Paquette (Eds), Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Educational Data Mining (pp.406-407). Wuhan, China: EDM Society. Link to PDF
Olney, A., Walker, B., Davis, R., & Graesser, A. (2017). The reading ability of college freshman. In X. Hu, T. Barnes, A. Hershkovitz, L. Paquette (Eds), Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Educational Data Mining (pp.396-397). Wuhan, China: EDM Society. Link to PDF
Shi, G., Pavlik Jr, P., & Graesser, A. (2017). Using an additive factor model and performance factor analysis to assess learning gains in a tutoring system to help adults with reading difficulties. In X. Hu, T. Barnes, A. Hershkovitz, L. Paquette (Eds), Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Educational Data Mining (pp.376-377). Wuhan, China: EDM Society. Link to PDF
Vania, D., Graesser, A. C., Hampton, A. J., Lau, L., Mitrovic, A., Shaffer, D. W., & Weerasinghe, A. (2017). 2nd International workshop on intelligent mentoring systems (IMS2017). In E. Andre, R. Baker, X. Hu, M. Rodrigo, B. du Boulay (Eds), International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Education (pp.659-661). Cham, Switzerland: Springer. Link to PDF