1st Edition
Artificial Intelligence in STEM Education The Paradigmatic Shifts in Research, Education, and Technology
Artificial intelligence (AI) opens new opportunities for STEM education in K-12, higher education, and professional education contexts. This book summarizes AI in education (AIED) with a particular focus on the research, practice, and technological paradigmatic shifts of AIED in recent years.
The 23 chapters in this edited collection track the paradigmatic shifts of AIED in STEM education, discussing how and why the paradigms have shifted, explaining how and in what ways AI techniques have ensured the shifts, and envisioning what directions next-generation AIED is heading in the new era. As a whole, the book illuminates the main paradigms of AI in STEM education, summarizes the AI-enhanced techniques and applications used to enable the paradigms, and discusses AI-enhanced teaching, learning, and design in STEM education. It provides an adapted educational policy so that practitioners can better facilitate the application of AI in STEM education.
This book is a must-read for researchers, educators, students, designers, and engineers who are interested in the opportunities and challenges of AI in STEM education.
Section I: AI-Enhanced Adaptive, Personalized Learning
1. Artificial intelligence in STEM education: current developments and future considerations
Fan Ouyang, Pengcheng Jiao, Amir H. Alavi, Bruce M. McLaren
2. Towards a deeper understanding of K-12 students' CT and engineering design processes
Gautam Biswas, Nicole M Hutchins
3. Intelligent science stations bring AI tutoring into the physical world
Nesra Yannier, Scott E. Hudson, Kenneth R. Koedinger
4. Adaptive Support for Representational Competencies during Technology-Based Problem Solving in STEM
Martina A. Rau
5. Teaching STEM subjects in non-STEM degrees: An adaptive learning model for teaching Statistics
Daniela Pacella, Rosa Fabbricatore, Alfonso Iodice D’Enza, Carla Galluccio, Francesco Palumbo
6. Removing barriers in self-paced online learning through designing intelligent learning dashboards
Arta Faramand, Hongxin Yan, M. Ali Akber Dewan, Fuhua Lin
Section II: AI-Enhanced Adaptive Learning Resources
7. PASTEL: Evidence-based learning engineering methods to facilitate creation of adaptive online courseware
Noboru Matsuda, Machi Shimmei, Prithviraj Chaudhuri, Dheeraj Makam, Raj Shrivastava, Jesse Wood, Peeyush Taneja
8. A Technology-Enhanced Approach for Locating Timely and Relevant News Articles for Context-Based Science Education
Jinnie Shin, Mark J. Gierl
9. Adaptive learning profiles in the education domain
Claudio Giovanni Demartini, Andrea Bosso, Giacomo Ciccarelli, Lorenzo Benussi, Flavio Renga
Section III: AI-Supported Instructor Systems and Assessments for AI and STEM Education
10. Teacher orchestration systems supported by AI: Theoretical possibilities and practical considerations
Suraj Uttamchandani, Haesol Bae, Chen (Carrie) Feng, Krista Glazewski, Cindy E. Hmelo-Silver, Thomas Brush, Bradford Mott, James Lester
11. The role of AI to support teacher learning and practice: A review and future directions
Jennifer L. Chiu, James P. Bywater, Sarah Lilly
12. Learning outcome modeling in computer-based assessments for learning
Fu Chen, Chang Lu
13. Designing automated writing evaluation systems for ambitious instruction and classroom integration
Lindsay Clare Matsumura, Elaine L. Wang, Richard Correnti, Diane Litman
Section IV: Learning Analytics and Educational Data Mining in AI and STEM Education
14. Promoting STEM education through the use of learning analytics: A paradigm shift
Shan Li, Susanne P. Lajoie
15. Using learning analytics to understand students’ discourse and behaviors in STEM education
Gaoxia Zhu, Wanli Xing, Vitaliy Popov, Yaoran Li, Charles Xie, Paul Horwitz
16. Understanding the role of AI and learning analytics techniques in addressing task difficulties in STEM education
Sadia Nawaz, Emad A. Alghamdi, Namrata Srivastava, Jason Lodge, Linda Corrin
17. Learning analytics in a Web3D-based inquiry learning environment
Guangtao Xu
18. On machine learning methods for propensity score matching and weighting in educational data mining applications
Juanjuan Fan, Joshua Beemer, Xi Yan, Richard A. Levine
19. Situating AI (and Big Data) in the Learning Sciences: Moving toward large-scale learning sciences
Danielle S. McNamara, Tracy Arner, Reese Butterfuss, Debshila Basu Mallick, Andrew S. Lan, Rod D. Roscoe, Henry L. Roediger III, Richard G. Baraniuk
20. Linking Natural Language Use and Science Performance
Scott Crossley, Danielle S. McNamara, Jennifer Dalsen, Craig G Anderson, Constance Steinkuehler
Section V: Other Topics in AI and STEM Education
21. Quick Red Fox: An app supporting a new paradigm in qualitative research on AIED for STEM
Stephen Hutt, Ryan S. Baker, Jaclyn Ocumpaugh, Anabil Munshi, J.M.A.L. Andres, Shamya Karumbaiah, Stefan Slater, Gautam Biswas, Luc Paquette, Nigel Bosch, Martin van Velsen
22. A systematic review of AI applications in computer-supported collaborative learning in STEM education
Jingwan Tang, Xiaofei Zhou, Xiaoyu Wan, Fan Ouyang
23. Inclusion and equity as a paradigm shift for artificial intelligence in education
Rod D. Roscoe, Shima Salehi, Nia Dowell, Marcelo Worsley, Chris Piech, Rose Luckin
Biography
Dr. Fan Ouyang is a research professor in the College of Education at Zhejiang University. Dr. Ouyang holds a Ph.D. degree from the University of Minnesota. Her research interests are computer-supported collaborative learning, learning analytics and educational data mining, online and blended learning, and artificial intelligence in education. Dr. Ouyang has authored/coauthored more than 30 SSCI/SCI/EI papers and conference publications and worked as PI/co-PI on more than 10 research projects, supported by National Science Foundation of China (NSFC), Zhejiang Province Educational Reformation Research Project, Zhejiang Province Educational Science Planning and Research Project, Zhejiang University-UCL Strategic Partner Funds, etc.
Dr. Pengcheng Jiao is a research professor in the Ocean College at the Zhejiang University, China. His multidisciplinary research integrates structures and materials, sensing, computing, networking, and robotics to create and enhance the smart ocean. His research interests include mechanical functional metamaterials, SHM and energy harvesting, marine soft robotics and AIEd. In recent years, he has authored/co-authored more than 100 peer-reviewed journal and conference publications and worked as PI/co-PI on more than 10 research projects.
Dr. Bruce M. McLaren is an Associate Research Professor at Carnegie Mellon University, current Secretary and Treasurer and past President of the International Artificial Intelligence in Education Society (2017-2019). McLaren is passionate about how technology can support education and has dedicated his work and research to projects that explore how students can learn with educational games, intelligent tutoring systems, e-learning principles, and collaborative learning. He holds a Ph.D. and M.S. in Intelligent Systems from the University of Pittsburgh, an M.S. in Computer Science from the University of Pittsburgh, and a B.S. in Computer Science (cum laude) from Millersville University.
Dr. Amir H. Alavi is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Department of Bioengineering at the University of Pittsburgh. He holds a PhD degree in Civil Engineering from Michigan State University. His original and seminal contributions to developing and deploying advanced machine learning and bio-inspired computation techniques have established a road map for their broad applications in various engineering domains. He is among the Web of Science ESI's World Top 1% Scientific Minds in 2018, and the Stanford University list of Top 1% Scientists in the World in 2019 and 2020.
