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AI in Education as a methodology for enabling educational evidence-based practice

Porayska-Pomsta, KK; (2015) AI in Education as a methodology for enabling educational evidence-based practice. In: Boticario, J and Muldner, K, (eds.) (Proceedings) 17th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Education (AIED 2015). (pp. pp. 52-61). CEUR Green open access

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Abstract

Evidence based practice (EBP) is of critical importance in Education where, increasingly, emphasis is placed on the need to equip teachers with an ability to independently generate evidence of their best practices in situ. Such contextualised evidence is seen as the key to in- forming educational practices more generally. One of the key challenges related to EBP lies in the paucity of methods that would allow educa- tional practitioners to generate evidence of their practices at a low-level of detail in a way that is inspectable and reproducible by others. This position paper focuses on the utility and relevance of AI methods of knowledge elicitation and knowledge representation as a means for sup- porting educational evidence-based practices through action research. AI offers methods whose service extends beyond building of ILEs and into real-world teaching practices, whereby teachers can acquire and apply computational design thinking needed to generate the evidence of in- terest. This opens a new dimension for AIEd as a field, i.e. one that demonstrates explicitly the continuing pertinence and a maturing reci- procity of the relationship between AI and Education.

Type: Proceedings paper
Title: AI in Education as a methodology for enabling educational evidence-based practice
Event: 17th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Education (AIED 2015)
Location: Madrid
Dates: 22 June 2015 - 26 June 2015
Open access status: An open access version is available from UCL Discovery
Publisher version: http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-1432/
Additional information: © The Authors 2015
UCL classification: UCL
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education > UCL Institute of Education
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education > UCL Institute of Education > IOE - Culture, Communication and Media
URI: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1474570
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