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Joseph E Beck
Systems Scientist

No longer a member of RI.

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• Project LISTEN - Literacy/Language/Learning Innovation/Instruction that Speech Technology ENables

• Project LISTEN's Reading Tutor - Project LISTEN's Reading Tutor listens to children read aloud.

• When the Rubber Meets the Road: Lessons from the In-School Adventures of an Automated Reading Tutor that Listens
  J. Mostow and J.E. Beck
  Conceptualizing Scale-Up Multidisciplinary Perspectives, B. Schneider, ed., 2005. [Abstract]

• Can automated questions scaffold children's reading comprehension?
  J.E. Beck, J. Mostow, and J. Bey
  Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Intelligent Tutoring Systems, September, 2004. [Abstract]
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• Using knowledge tracing to measure student reading proficiencies
  J.E. Beck and J. Sison
  Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Intelligent Tutoring Systems, September, 2004. [Abstract]
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• Lessons on using ITS data to answer educational research questions
  C. Heiner, J.E. Beck, and J. Mostow
  Proceedings of the ITS2004 Workshop on Analyzing Student-Tutor Interaction Logs to Improve Educational Outcomes, August, 2004, pp. 1 - 9. [Abstract]
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• Using response times to model student disengagement
  J.E. Beck
  Proceedings of the ITS2004 Workshop on Social and Emotional Intelligence in Learning Environments, August, 2004. [Abstract]
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• Automated student assessment in language tutors
  J.E. Beck and J. Sison
  CALICO, June, 2004. [Abstract]

• Improving the Help Selection Policy in a Reading Tutor that Listens
  C. Heiner, J.E. Beck, and J. Mostow
  Proceedings of the InSTIL/ICALL Symposium on NLP and Speech Technologies in Advanced Language Learning Systems, June, 2004, pp. 195 - 198. [Abstract]
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• Using automated speech recognition to measure scaffolding and learning effects of word identification interventions in a computer tutor that listens
  J.E. Beck, J. Sison, and J. Mostow
  Eleventh Annual Meeting of the Society for the Scientific Study of Reading, June, 2004.

• Which Help Helps? Effects of Various Types of Help on Word Learning in an Automated Reading Tutor that Listens
  J. Mostow, J.E. Beck, and C. Heiner
  Eleventh Annual Meeting of the Society for the Scientific Study of Reading, June, 2004. [Abstract]

• Automatically assessing oral reading fluency in a computer tutor that listens
  J.E. Beck, P. Jia, and J. Mostow
  Technology, Instruction, Cognition and Learning, Vol. 1, 2004, pp. 61 - 81. [Abstract]
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