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Recent research shows a lack of student interest and declined enrollment in physics. Our system offers four levels of difficulty with activities that enable students to exercise a range of lower and higher order cognitive skills. Moreover, we adopt existing methods in probabilistic user modeling to provide personalized help. Our work models both domain concepts as well as user attitudes.
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Bojey, M., Hui, B., Campbell, R. (2014). Engaging Higher Order Thinking Skills with a Personalized Physics Tutoring System. In: Trausan-Matu, S., Boyer, K.E., Crosby, M., Panourgia, K. (eds) Intelligent Tutoring Systems. ITS 2014. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 8474. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-07221-0_78
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