The people listed below have contributed to the Assistments Project in one way or another.



Scientists

Neil T. Heffernan PhD: Director of the Worcester Polytechnic Institute Team
Kenneth Koedinger PhD: Director of the Carnegie Mellon University Team (PI on US Dept of Ed Grant)
Brian W. Junker PhD: Statistics Department for Carnegie Mellon University providing psychometric analysis of large scale tests.
Steven Ritter PhD: Chief Cognitive Scientist of Carnegie Leaning Incorporated
Carolyn Penstein Rosé PhD: Carnegie Mellon University

Other Scientists

Vincent Aleven PhD: Carnegie Mellon University
Bruce McLaren Bruce M. McLaren, German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence, Germany and CMU, USA

Collaborating Educators

We would like to thank Dr. James Caradonio, Superintendent of the Worcester Public Schools for his support of this project and helping us to find cooperating Principals and Teachers.

We would like to thank the cooperating teachers that have had a key hand in designing the Assistments. They have allowed us to video tape them as they told us what questions and hints to give to students that were having trouble with MCAS items.

We would also like to thank the principals of these respective schools that have supported the following teachers while they worked on this project.

Rose Dawkins Worcester East Middle School
Maureen E. McCullough Forest Grove Middle School
Donald Kelley Forest Grove Middle School

Worcester Public Schools

Ms. Beverly Giarusso Worcester East Middle School
Mr. Chris Starczewski Burncoat Middle School
Mr. Jim Moffatt Forest Grove Middle School
Mr. Paul King Forest Grove Middle School

Boston Public Schools

Ms. Cristina Heffernan
Ms. Karen Lewinnek

We would also like to thank our advisors on the teacher reporting system:

Special thanks to Nancy Zamarro for helping us get connected to some great teachers.

John Clayton Worcester Public Schools
Mary Dolye Worcester Public Schools
Renah Razzaq Worcester Public Schools
Barbara Swidler Math Coordinator: Shrewsbury Public Schools

The Worcester Polytechnic Institute Team

* Denotes Undergraduate students
Daniel Yoo
Scheme Tutor Developer
Derek Radtke
Curriculum Tools
Database Developer
Michael Purcaro
Project Manager
James Schementi
Builder Developer
UI Developer
Ryan Meador
Performance/Profiling Developer
Darren Torpey
Builder Developer
Abraao Lourenco
Project Manager
Content Sharing/Publishing Developer
Loren Gjata
Content Developer
Kai Rasmussen
Runtime Developer, JESS Tutoring Developer
Jason Morris
ITS Architecture Developer
David T Curran
Content Developer
Michael A. Macasek
Runtime/Database/Tools Developer
Nick Lloyd
Gaming Prevention Developer
Logging Developer
David P Lamoureux
Content Developer
Edwin Mercado
Difficulty Factors Assessment Developer
Leena Razzaq
Content Director
Ramon Harrington
Content Developer
Goss Nuzzo-Jones
Runtime Developer
Jozsef Patvarczki
System Scalability & Reliability Admin
Cosmin Tudor
Content Developer
Terrence E. Turner
Builder Developer
Igor Ushakov
Teacher Tools Developer
Michael Longqiang Zhang
Content Developer
Ruta Upalekar
Knowledge Component Hierarchy Developer
Content Creator
Zach Pardos
Bayesian Networks Developer
Aaron G Holroyd
Content Developer
Jason Walonoski
Project Manager
Runtime/Reporting/Database Developer
Duc Duong
Reporting Developer
Roderick William Taylor
Content Developer
Shane Gibbons*
Reporting Developer
Mingyu Feng
Database/Reporting Architecture
Christopher Freeman
Content Developer
Ema Holban*
Tools Developer
 
Paul Sader
Content Developer
Andrei Paduroi*
Content Developer


Olga Petrova*
Content Developer


Emily Potter*
Content Developer


Roger Schafer*
Runtime Developer


Ryan Svoboda*
Content Developer


Bogomil Tselkov*
Content Developer


Venera Varbanova*
Content Developer


Jonathan Walsh*
Runtime Developer


Christopher Aniszczyk*
Developer


Sanket Dinesh Choksey
Lead Architect (Original System)


Jonathan Eric Freyberger
Developer (Original System)


Chuck Haines*
Content Developer


Tom Livak
Initial Runtime Architect


Liam Morley*
Content Developer


Alec Shanson
Content Developer

Additional WPI Past Code Contributors not officially working on the Assistments Project

  • Ethan Croteau
  • Larrisa Orlova

WPI Master Thesis Students Related to the Assistment Project

Carnegie Mellon University Collaborators

  • Kenneth Koedinger - PhD: Director
  • Vincent Aleven - PhD: Authoring Tool Principal Investigator
  • Bruce MacLaren -PhD: Authoring Tool Principal Investigator
  • Elizabeth Ayers - PhD student: Statistics
  • Mimi McLaughlin
  • Hui Cheng

Past Carnegie Mellon University Collaborators

  • Meghan Myers
  • Andrea Knight - Lead HCI at CMU
  • Jonathan Brown
  • Melissa Butler - Documentation
  • Chang-Hsin Chang
  • Dipti Mandalia -Assistment Builder
  • Gus Prevas
  • Mike Schneider
  • Jonathan Sewall
  • Mike Adams - Testing
  • Zhenhua Zhang