Albert T. Corbett is an associate research professor emeritus of human–computer interaction at

Carnegie Mellon University Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) is a private research university in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. One of its predecessors was established in 1900 by Andrew Carnegie as the Carnegie Technical Schools; it became the Carnegie Institute of Technology ...

. He is widely known for his role in the development of the Cognitive Tutor software, leading to one article with over 1,000 citations. Along with John Robert Anderson, he developed the

Bayesian knowledge tracing Bayesian knowledge tracing is an algorithm used in many intelligent tutoring systems to model each learner's mastery of the knowledge being tutored. It models student knowledge in a hidden Markov model as a latent variable, updated by observing the ...

algorithm, which is used in Cognitive Tutor software. This work has been particularly influential in the educational data mining community—over half of the EDM conference papers published in 2011 and 2012 cited Bayesian knowledge-tracing. Corbett studied psychology at

Brown University Brown University is a private research university in Providence, Rhode Island. Brown is the seventh-oldest institution of higher education in the United States, founded in 1764 as the College in the English Colony of Rhode Island and Providenc ...

, and obtained a doctorate in

psychology Psychology is the scientific study of mind and behavior. Psychology includes the study of conscious and unconscious phenomena, including feelings and thoughts. It is an academic discipline of immense scope, crossing the boundaries betwe ...

from the

University of Oregon The University of Oregon (UO, U of O or Oregon) is a public research university in Eugene, Oregon. Founded in 1876, the institution is well known for its strong ties to the sports apparel and marketing firm Nike, Inc, and its co-founder, billion ...

. His doctoral advisor was Wayne Wickelgren.

Current papers

*Corbett, A.T. and Anderson, J.R. (2001). "Locus of feedback control in computer-based tutoring: Impact on learning rate, achievement and attitudes." ''Proceedings of ACM CHI'2001 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems'', 245–252. *Corbett, A.T., McLaughlin, M.S., Scarpinatto, K.C. and Hadley, W.S. (2000). "Analyzing and Generating Mathematical Models: An Algebra II Cognitive Tutor Design Study. Intelligent tutoring systems": ''Proceedings of the Fifth international conference'', ITS'2000, 314–323. *Corbett, A.T. and Trask, H. (2000). "Instructional interventions in computer-based tutoring: Differential impact on learning time and accuracy." ''Proceedings of ACM CHI'2000 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems'', 97–104. *Baker R.S., Corbett A.T., Koedinger K.R. (2002) "The Resilience of Overgeneralization of Knowledge about Data Representations." Presented at American Educational Research Association Conference *Baker R.S., Corbett A.T., Koedinger K.R. (2001) "Toward a Model of Learning Data Representations." ''Proceedings of the Cognitive Science Society Conference'', 45–50. *Mathan, S., Koedinger, K.R., Corbett, A., & Hyndman, A. (2000). "Effective strategies for bridging gulfs between users and computer systems." In ''Proceedings of HCI-Aero 2000: International Conference on Human Computer Interaction in Aeronautics.'' (pp. 197–202). Toulouse, France. *Corbett, A.T., McLaughlin, M.S. and Scarpinatto, K.C. (2000). "Modeling student knowledge: Cognitive tutors in high school and college. User modeling and user-adapted interaction", 10, 81–108.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Corbett, Albert T. American cognitive scientists American educational psychologists Living people Carnegie Mellon University faculty Human-Computer Interaction Institute faculty University of Oregon alumni Year of birth missing (living people) Brown University alumni

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