Teaching Critical Thinking Skills in Science with sInvestigator

Publications

  • Tecuci G., Inquiry-based Teaching of Critical Thinking Skills in Science with sInvestigator, Learning Agents Center, Computer Science Department, George Mason University, January 2021.

  • Tecuci G., Marcu D., Parekh A., Ding X., sInvestigator: Facilitating Inquiry-based Teaching and Learning of Critical Thinking Skills, Innovations in Teaching and Learning Conference, George Mason University, September 21-25, 2020. (Presentation)

  • Tecuci G., Marcu D., Boicu M., Meckl S., Uttamsingh C., Toward a Computational Theory of Evidence-Based Reasoning for Instructable Cognitive Agents. In Proceedings of the 2019 AAAI Fall Symposium "Artificial Intelligence in Government and Public Sector," Arlington, VA, November 7-9, 2019.

  • Tecuci G., Marcu D., Boicu M., Uttamsingh C., Anticipatory Intelligence Analysis with Cogent: Current Status and Future Directions. In Proceedings of the 2019 AAAI Fall Symposium "Cognitive Systems for Anticipatory Thinking," Arlington, VA, November 7-9, 2019.

  • Tecuci G., Meckl S., Marcu D., Boicu M., Instructable Cognitive Agents for Autonomous Evidence-Based Reasoning, Advances in Cognitive Systems, Vol. 8, 2019. Also in Proceedings of the Seventh Annual Conference on Advances in Cognitive Systems, Technical Report Number COLAB2 -TR-4, pp.183-204, August 2-5, 2019, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA.

  • Holincheck, N., Galanti, T., Trefil, J., Tecuci, G., Boicu, M., Marcu, D. (2019). Developing computational thinking in scientific inquiry: Use of sInvestigator in problem solving. The 2019 American Educational Research Association (AERA) Annual Meeting, Toronto, Ontario. (Poster)

  • Holincheck, N., Galanti, T., Tecuci, G., Boicu, M., Trefil, J., & Marcu, D. (2018). Developing Critical Thinking Skills with sInvestigator. Proposal for session presentation at the 2018 Association for Science Teacher Education (ASTE) International Conference, Baltimore, MD.

  • Galanti, T. M., Holincheck, N., Tecuci, G., Trefil, J., Boicu, M., & Marcu, D. (2018). Building information literacy: Using sInvestigator to evaluate the credibility of internet sources. Proposal for session presentation at the 2018 American Educational Research Association (AERA) Annual Meeting, New York, NY. (Presentation)

  • Boicu M., Tecuci G., Marcu D., James Trefil, Nancy Holincheck, Inquiry-BasedTeaching and Learning of Science with Cognitive Assistants, in Proceedings of the 2016 AAAI Fall Symposium "Cognitive Assistance in Government and Public Sector Applications," pp.133-140, Arlington, VA, 17-19 November 2016, Technical Report FS-16-02, AAAI Press, Palo Alto, CA.