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2026

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Overview

Kenneth R. Koedinger is affiliated with Carnegie Mellon University in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of computer science and psychology, with a strong emphasis on artificial intelligence, computer science applications, developmental and educational psychology, education, and information systems.

Their published work frequently appears in a range of scholarly venues. Key publication outlets include arXiv (Cornell University), the International Journal of Artificial Intelligence in Education, Educational Research Review, Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), and the Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction.

Koedinger's contributions cover topics such as intelligent tutoring systems and adaptive learning, online learning and analytics, innovative teaching and learning methods, topic modeling, educational games and gamification, teaching and learning programming, as well as visual and cognitive learning processes.

Recent publications feature:

  • Ethics of AI in Education: Towards a Community-Wide Framework (2021), International Journal of Artificial Intelligence in Education
  • Let's talk evidence - The case for combining inquiry-based and direct instruction (2023), Educational Research Review
  • Active Learning is About More Than Hands-On: A Mixed-Reality AI System to Support STEM Education (2020), International Journal of Artificial Intelligence in Education
  • Active learning: "Hands-on" meets "minds-on" (2021), Science
  • When is Deep Learning the Best Approach to Knowledge Tracing? (2020), Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)

Frequent collaborators in their research include Vincent Aleven, Danielle R. Thomas, Jionghao Lin, Shivang Gupta, and Paulo F. Carvalho.

Best Publications

  • Intelligent tutoring systems

    John R. Anderson;C. Franklin Boyle;Brian J. Reiser

  • Cognitive Tutors: Lessons Learned

    John R. Anderson;Albert T. Corbett;Kenneth R. Koedinger;Ray Pelletier

  • Intelligent Tutoring Goes To School in the Big City

    Kenneth R. Koedinger;John R. Anderson;William H. Hadley;Mary A. Mark

  • An effective metacognitive strategy: Learning by doing and explaining with a computer-based Cognitive Tutor.

    Vincent A.W.M.M. Aleven;Kenneth R. Koedinger

  • The Knowledge-Learning-Instruction Framework: Bridging the Science-Practice Chasm to Enhance Robust Student Learning.

    Kenneth R. Koedinger;Albert T. Corbett;Charles Perfetti

  • Ethics of AI in Education: Towards a Community-Wide Framework

    Wayne Holmes;Kaska Porayska-Pomsta;Ken Holstein;Emma Sutherland

  • Limitations of student control : Do students know when they need help?

    V. Aleven;K. R. Koedinger

  • Exploring the Assistance Dilemma in Experiments with Cognitive Tutors

    Kenneth R. Koedinger;Vincent Aleven

  • Organizing Instruction and Study to Improve Student Learning. IES Practice Guide. NCER 2007-2004.

    Harold Pashler;Patrice M. Bain;Brian A. Bottge;Arthur Graesser

  • The real story behind story problems: Effects of representations on quantitative reasoning.

    Kenneth R. Koedinger;Mitchell J. Nathan

  • Learning factors analysis – a general method for cognitive model evaluation and improvement

    Hao Cen;Kenneth Koedinger;Brian Junker

  • Cognitive tutor: applied research in mathematics education.

    Steven Ritter;John R. Anderson;Kenneth R. Koedinger;Albert Corbett

  • Off-task behavior in the cognitive tutor classroom: when students "game the system"

    Ryan Shaun Baker;Albert T. Corbett;Kenneth R. Koedinger;Angela Z. Wagner

  • Abstract Planning and Perceptual Chunks: Elements of Expertise in Geometry

    Kenneth R. Koedinger;John R. Anderson

  • Performance Factors Analysis --A New Alternative to Knowledge Tracing

    Philip I. Pavlik;Hao Cen;Kenneth R. Koedinger

  • Toward Meta-cognitive Tutoring: A Model of Help Seeking with a Cognitive Tutor

    Vincent Aleven;Bruce Mclaren;Ido Roll;Kenneth Koedinger

  • Individualized Bayesian Knowledge Tracing Models

    Michael V. Yudelson;Kenneth R. Koedinger;Geoffrey J. Gordon

  • A Data Repository for the EDM Community: The PSLC DataShop

    Kenneth R. Koedinger;Ryan S. J. d. Baker;Kyle Cunningham;Alida Skogsholm

  • Addressing the assessment challenge with an online system that tutors as it assesses

    Mingyu Feng;Neil Heffernan;Kenneth Koedinger

  • Detecting student misuse of intelligent tutoring systems

    Ryan Shaun Baker;Albert T. Corbett;Kenneth R. Koedinger

  • Improving students’ help-seeking skills using metacognitive feedback in an intelligent tutoring system

    Ido Roll;Vincent Aleven;Bruce M. McLaren;Kenneth R. Koedinger

Frequent Co-Authors

Vincent Aleven
Vincent Aleven Carnegie Mellon University
Ido Roll
Ido Roll Technion – Israel Institute of Technology
Ryan S. Baker
Ryan S. Baker University of Pennsylvania
William W. Cohen
William W. Cohen Carnegie Mellon University
Bruce M. McLaren
Bruce M. McLaren Carnegie Mellon University
Albert T. Corbett
Albert T. Corbett Carnegie Mellon University
Neil T. Heffernan
Neil T. Heffernan Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Nikol Rummel
Nikol Rummel Ruhr University Bochum
Carolyn Penstein Rosé
Carolyn Penstein Rosé Carnegie Mellon University
John R. Anderson
John R. Anderson Carnegie Mellon University

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