| 2026 | AIED | Gender Differences in Learning and Test-Taking Experiences with Digital Game-Based Assessment. | Aditi Haiman, Esma Kahveci, Alessandro Pagano, Angie Chi, Bruce M. McLaren |
| 2026 | LAK | Revisiting the Hint Button: Consistent Negative Associations Between Unproductive Hint Use and Learning Outcomes in Intelligent Tutoring Systems. | Marshall An, Mahboobeh Mehrvarz, John C. Stamper, Bruce M. McLaren |
| 2026 | LAK | Understanding Gaming the System by Analyzing Self-Regulated Learning in Think-Aloud Protocols. | Jiayi Zhang, Conrad Borchers, Canwen Wang, Vishal Kumar, Leah Teffera, Bruce M. McLaren, Ryan S. Baker |
| 2026 | SIGCSE | Partnering with Community College Faculty to Co-Design Intelligent Tutoring Systems for Cybersecurity Workforce Training. | Marshall An, Mahboobeh Mehrvarz, Leah Teffera, Matthew Kisow, Bruce M. McLaren, Christopher Bogart |
| 2025 | AIED | Comparing the Effectiveness of Digital Game-Based Learning and Embodied Learning. | Aditi Haiman, Ivon Arroyo, Bruce M. McLaren |
| 2025 | AIED | Utilizing Log-Based and Neurophysiological Measures to Understand Engagement and Learning with Intelligent Tutoring Systems. | Yushuang Liu, Ido Davidesco, Bruce M. McLaren, J. Elizabeth Richey, Xiaorui Xue, Leah Teffera, Hayden Stec, Hyosun Lee, Jiayi Zhang, Suyi Liu, Elana Zion-Golumbic |
| 2024 | AIED | Understanding Gender Effects in Game-Based Learning: The Role of Self-Explanation. | J. Elizabeth Richey, Huy Anh Nguyen, Mahboobeh Mehrvarz, Nicole Else-Quest, Ivon Arroyo, Ryan S. Baker, Hayden Stec, Jessica Hammer, Bruce M. McLaren |
| 2023 | AIED | Gender Differences in Learning Game Preferences: Results Using a Multi-dimensional Gender Framework. | Huy Anh Nguyen, Nicole Else-Quest, J. Elizabeth Richey, Jessica Hammer, Sarah Di, Bruce M. McLaren |
| 2023 | AIED | Examining the Learning Benefits of Different Types of Prompted Self-explanation in a Decimal Learning Game. | Huy Anh Nguyen, Xinying Hou, Hayden Stec, Sarah Di, John C. Stamper, Bruce M. McLaren |
| 2023 | AIED | Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion in Educational Technology Research and Development. | Adele Smolansky, Huy Anh Nguyen, Ren F. Kizilcec, Bruce M. McLaren |
| 2022 | AIED | Investigating the Effects of Mindfulness Meditation on a Digital Learning Game for Mathematics. | Huy Anh Nguyen, Zsofia K. Takacs, Eniko Orsolya Bereczki, J. Elizabeth Richey, Michael Mogessie Ashenafi, Bruce M. McLaren |
| 2021 | AIED | Towards Sharing Student Models Across Learning Systems. | Ryan S. Baker, Bruce M. McLaren, Stephen Hutt, J. Elizabeth Richey, Elizabeth Rowe, Ma. Victoria Almeda, Michael Mogessie Ashenafi, Juliana Ma. Alexandra L. Andres |
| 2021 | AIED | Gaming and Confrustion Explain Learning Advantages for a Math Digital Learning Game. | J. Elizabeth Richey, Jiayi Zhang, Rohini Das, Juan Miguel L. Andres-Bray, Richard Scruggs, Michael Mogessie Ashenafi, Ryan S. Baker, Bruce M. McLaren |
| 2020 | AIED | Confrustion and Gaming While Learning with Erroneous Examples in a Decimals Game. | Michael Mogessie Ashenafi, J. Elizabeth Richey, Bruce M. McLaren, Juan Miguel L. Andres-Bray, Ryan S. Baker |
| 2020 | AIED | Towards Practical Detection of Unproductive Struggle. | Stephen E. Fancsali, Kenneth Holstein, Michael Sandbothe, Steven Ritter, Bruce M. McLaren, Vincent Aleven |
| 2020 | AIED | Exploring How Gender and Enjoyment Impact Learning in a Digital Learning Game. | Xinying Hou, Huy Anh Nguyen, J. Elizabeth Richey, Bruce M. McLaren |
| 2020 | AIED | Improving Students' Problem-Solving Flexibility in Non-routine Mathematics. | Huy Anh Nguyen, Yuqing Guo, John C. Stamper, Bruce M. McLaren |
| 2020 | EDM | Moving beyond Test Scores: Analyzing the Effectiveness of a Digital Learning Game through Learning Analytics. | Huy Anh Nguyen, Xinying Hou, John C. Stamper, Bruce M. McLaren |
| 2020 | ICCE | Extending Deep Knowledge Tracing: Inferring Interpretable Knowledge and Predicting PostSystem Performance. | Richard Scruggs, Ryan S. Baker, Bruce M. McLaren |
| 2020 | iLRN | Work-in-Progress - A Generalizable Virtual Reality Training and Intelligent Tutor for Additive Manufacturing. | Michael Mogessie Ashenafi, Sandra DeVincent Wolf, Matheus Barbosa, Nicholas Jones, Bruce M. McLaren |
| 2019 | AIED | The Impact of Student Model Updates on Contingent Scaffolding in a Natural-Language Tutoring System. | Patricia L. Albacete, Pamela W. Jordan, Sandra Katz, Irene-Angelica Chounta, Bruce M. McLaren |
| 2019 | AIED | Designing for Complementarity: Teacher and Student Needs for Orchestration Support in AI-Enhanced Classrooms. | Kenneth Holstein, Bruce M. McLaren, Vincent Aleven |
| 2019 | AIED | Confrustion in Learning from Erroneous Examples: Does Type of Prompted Self-explanation Make a Difference? | J. Elizabeth Richey, Bruce M. McLaren, Miguel Andres-Bray, Michael Mogessie Ashenafi, Richard Scruggs, Ryan S. Baker, Jon R. Star |
| 2019 | AIED | How Does Order of Gameplay Impact Learning and Enjoyment in a Digital Learning Game? | Yeyu Wang, Huy Anh Nguyen, Erik Harpstead, John C. Stamper, Bruce M. McLaren |
| 2019 | EDM | Towards Modeling Students' Problem-solving Skills in Non-routine Mathematics Problems. | Huy Anh Nguyen, John C. Stamper, Bruce M. McLaren |
| 2019 | EDM | Using Knowledge Component Modeling to Increase Domain Understanding in a Digital Learning Game. | Huy Anh Nguyen, Yeyu Wang, John C. Stamper, Bruce M. McLaren |
| 2019 | LAK | Exploring the Subtleties of Agency and Indirect Control in Digital Learning Games. | Erik Harpstead, J. Elizabeth Richey, Huy Anh Nguyen, Bruce M. McLaren |
| 2018 | AIED | Providing Proactive Scaffolding During Tutorial Dialogue Using Guidance from Student Model Predictions. | Patricia L. Albacete, Pamela W. Jordan, Dennis Lusetich, Irene-Angelica Chounta, Sandra Katz, Bruce M. McLaren |
| 2018 | AIED | Student Learning Benefits of a Mixed-Reality Teacher Awareness Tool in AI-Enhanced Classrooms. | Kenneth Holstein, Bruce M. McLaren, Vincent Aleven |
| 2018 | AIED | Opening Up an Intelligent Tutoring System Development Environment for Extensible Student Modeling. | Kenneth Holstein, Zac Yu, Jonathan Sewall, Octav Popescu, Bruce M. McLaren, Vincent Aleven |
| 2018 | AIED | Student Agency and Game-Based Learning: A Study Comparing Low and High Agency. | Huy Anh Nguyen, Erik Harpstead, Yeyu Wang, Bruce M. McLaren |
| 2018 | CHI | CHI 2018 Workshop: Data-Driven Educational Game Design. | Bruce M. McLaren, Jodi Asbell-Clarke, Jessica Hammer |
| 2018 | EDM | Predicting Individualized Learner Models Across Tutor Lessons. | Michael Eagle, Albert T. Corbett, John C. Stamper, Bruce M. McLaren |
| 2018 | LAK | The classroom as a dashboard: co-designing wearable cognitive augmentation for K-12 teachers. | Kenneth Holstein, Gena Hong, Mera Tegene, Bruce M. McLaren, Vincent Aleven |
| 2017 | AIED | Exploring Learner Model Differences Between Students. | Michael Eagle, Albert T. Corbett, John C. Stamper, Bruce M. McLaren, Ryan S. Baker, Angela Z. Wagner, Benjamin A. MacLaren, Aaron P. Mitchell |
| 2017 | AIED | Uncovering Gender and Problem Difficulty Effects in Learning with an Educational Game. | Bruce M. McLaren, Rosta Farzan, Deanne Adams, Richard E. Mayer, Jodi Forlizzi |
| 2017 | AIED | Effects of a Dashboard for an Intelligent Tutoring System on Teacher Knowledge, Lesson Plans and Class Sessions. | Franeska Xhakaj, Vincent Aleven, Bruce M. McLaren |
| 2017 | EDM | Modeling the Zone of Proximal Development with a Computational Approach. | Irene-Angelica Chounta, Bruce M. McLaren, Patricia L. Albacete, Pamela W. Jordan, Sandra Katz |
| 2017 | LAK | Intelligent tutors as teachers' aides: exploring teacher needs for real-time analytics in blended classrooms. | Kenneth Holstein, Bruce M. McLaren, Vincent Aleven |
| 2017 | LAK | SPACLE: investigating learning across virtual and physical spaces using spatial replays. | Kenneth Holstein, Bruce M. McLaren, Vincent Aleven |
| 2016 | ITS | Estimating Individual Differences for Student Modeling in Intelligent Tutors from Reading and Pretest Data. | Michael Eagle, Albert T. Corbett, John C. Stamper, Bruce M. McLaren, Angela Z. Wagner, Benjamin A. MacLaren, Aaron P. Mitchell |
| 2015 | AIED | Worked Examples are More Efficient for Learning than High-Assistance Instructional Software. | Bruce M. McLaren, Tamara van Gog, Craig H. Ganoe, David J. Yaron, Michael Karabinos |
| 2015 | IJCAI | Examples and Tutored Problems: Adaptive Support Using Assistance Scores. | Amir Shareghi Najar, Antonija Mitrovic, Bruce M. McLaren |
| 2014 | CSEDU | A Web-based System to Support Inquiry Learning - Towards Determining How Much Assistance Students Need. | Bruce M. McLaren, Michael J. Timms, Doug Weihnacht, Daniel Brenner, Kim Luttgen, Andrew Grillo-Hill, David H. Brown |
| 2014 | ITS | Exploring the Assistance Dilemma: Comparing Instructional Support in Examples and Problems. | Bruce M. McLaren, Tamara van Gog, Craig H. Ganoe, David Yaron, Michael Karabinos |
| 2013 | AIED | Erroneous Examples as Desirable Difficulty. | Deanne Adams, Bruce M. McLaren, Richard E. Mayer, George Goguadze, Seiji Isotani |
| 2013 | AIED | Towards Supporting 'Learning To Learn Together' in the Metafora platform. | Manolis Mavrikis, Toby Dragon, Nikoleta Yiannoutsou, Bruce M. McLaren |
| 2013 | CSEDU | The Educational Software Gold Rush - How the Learning Sciences and Advanced Technology Can Lead the Way. | Bruce M. McLaren |
| 2012 | CogSci | Erroneous Examples Versus Problem Solving: Can We Improve How Middle School Students Learn Decimals? | Deanne Adams, Bruce M. McLaren, Kelley Durkin, Richard E. Mayer, Bethany Rittle-Johnson, Seiji Isotani, Martin Van Velsen |
| 2012 | EDM | Development of a Workbench to Address the Educational Data Mining Bottleneck. | Ma. Mercedes T. Rodrigo, Ryan Shaun Joazeiro de Baker, Bruce M. McLaren, Alejandra Jayme, Thomas Dy |
| 2012 | ITS | Scripting Discussions for Elaborative, Critical Interactions. | Oliver Scheuer, Bruce M. McLaren, Armin Weinberger, Sabine Niebuhr |
| 2011 | AIED | When Is It Best to Learn with All Worked Examples? | Bruce M. McLaren, Seiji Isotani |
| 2011 | AIED | Metacognitive Practice Makes Perfect: Improving Students' Self-Assessment Skills with an Intelligent Tutoring System. | Ido Roll, Vincent Aleven, Bruce M. McLaren, Kenneth R. Koedinger |
| 2011 | AIED | Will Structuring the Collaboration of Students Improve Their Argumentation? | Oliver Scheuer, Bruce M. McLaren, Maralee Harrell, Armin Weinberger |
| 2011 | EDM | Evaluating a Bayesian Student Model of Decimal Misconceptions. | George Goguadze, Sergey A. Sosnovsky, Seiji Isotani, Bruce M. McLaren |
| 2011 | ICAIL | Can temporal representation and reasoning make a difference in automated legal reasoning?: lessons from an AI-based ethical reasoner. | Bruce M. McLaren, Kevin D. Ashley |
| 2011 | ICCE | Towards a Bayesian Student Model for Detecting Decimal Misconceptions. | George Goguadze, Sergey A. Sosnovsky, Seiji Isotani, Bruce M. McLaren |
| 2011 | ICCE | Scripting Collaboration: What Affects Does it Have on Student Argumentation? | Oliver Scheuer, Bruce M. McLaren, Maralee Harrell, Armin Weinberger |
| 2010 | ITS | Towards Intelligent Tutoring with Erroneous Examples: A Taxonomy of Decimal Misconceptions. | Seiji Isotani, Bruce M. McLaren, Max Altman |
| 2010 | ITS | Learning to Argue Using Computers - A View from Teachers, Researchers, and System Developers. | Frank Loll, Oliver Scheuer, Bruce M. McLaren, Niels Pinkwart |
| 2010 | ITS | Learning from Erroneous Examples. | Dimitra Tsovaltzi, Bruce M. McLaren, Erica Melis, Ann-Kristin Meyer, Michael Dietrich, George Goguadze |
| 2009 | AIED | Are Your Students Working Creatively Together? Automatically Recognizing Creative Turns in Student e-Discussions. | Bruce M. McLaren, Rupert Wegerif, Jan Miksatko, Oliver Scheuer, Marian Chamrada, Nasser Mansour |
| 2009 | AIED | An Analysis and Feedback Infrastructure for Argumentation Learning Systems. | Oliver Scheuer, Bruce M. McLaren, Frank Loll, Niels Pinkwart |
| 2009 | ICALT | Towards a Flexible Intelligent Tutoring System for Argumentation. | Frank Loll, Niels Pinkwart, Oliver Scheuer, Bruce M. McLaren |
| 2008 | ITS | How Do We Get the Pieces to Talk? An Architecture to Support Interoperability between Educational Tools. | Andreas Harrer, Niels Pinkwart, Bruce M. McLaren, Oliver Scheuer |
| 2008 | ITS | When Is Assistance Helpful to Learning? Results in Combining Worked Examples and Intelligent Tutoring. | Bruce M. McLaren, Sung-Joo Lim, Kenneth R. Koedinger |
| 2008 | ITS | What's in a Cluster? Automatically Detecting Interesting Interactions in Student E-Discussions. | Jan Miksatko, Bruce M. McLaren |
| 2008 | ITS | Helping Teachers Handle the Flood of Data in Online Student Discussions. | Oliver Scheuer, Bruce M. McLaren |
| 2008 | ITS | Using an Adaptive Collaboration Script to Promote Conceptual Chemistry Learning. | Dimitra Tsovaltzi, Bruce M. McLaren, Nikol Rummel, Oliver Scheuer, Andreas Harrer, Niels Pinkwart, Isabel Braun |
| 2007 | AIED | Can a Polite Intelligent Tutoring System Lead to Improved Learning Outside of the Lab? | Bruce M. McLaren, Sung-Joo Lim, David Yaron, Kenneth R. Koedinger |
| 2007 | AIED | Using Machine Learning Techniques to Analyze and Support Mediation of Student E-Discussions. | Bruce M. McLaren, Oliver Scheuer, Maarten de Laat, Rakheli Hever, Reuma De Groot, Carolyn P. Ros |
| 2007 | AIED | Can Help Seeking Be Tutored? Searching for the Secret Sauce of Metacognitive Tutoring. | Ido Roll, Vincent Aleven, Bruce M. McLaren, Kenneth R. Koedinger |
| 2007 | AIED | Who Says Three's a Crowd? Using a Cognitive Tutor to Support Peer Tutoring. | Erin Walker, Bruce M. McLaren, Nikol Rummel, Kenneth R. Koedinger |
| 2006 | ICALT | Tutorial on Rapid Development of Intelligent Tutors using the Cognitive Tutor Authoring Tools (CTAT). | Vincent Aleven, Bruce M. McLaren, Jonathan Sewall |
| 2006 | ITS | The Cognitive Tutor Authoring Tools (CTAT): Preliminary Evaluation of Efficiency Gains. | Vincent Aleven, Bruce M. McLaren, Jonathan Sewall, Kenneth R. Koedinger |
| 2006 | ITS | Studying the Effects of Personalized Language and Worked Examples in the Context of a Web-Based Intelligent Tutor. | Bruce M. McLaren, Sung-Joo Lim, France Gagnon, David Yaron, Kenneth R. Koedinger |
| 2006 | ITS | The Help Tutor: Does Metacognitive Feedback Improve Students' Help-Seeking Actions, Skills and Learning? | Ido Roll, Vincent Aleven, Bruce M. McLaren, Eunjeong Ryu, Ryan Shaun Joazeiro de Baker, Kenneth R. Koedinger |
| 2006 | ITS | Towards Teaching Metacognition: Supporting Spontaneous Self-Assessment. | Ido Roll, Eunjeong Ryu, Jonathan Sewall, Brett Leber, Bruce M. McLaren, Vincent Aleven, Kenneth R. Koedinger |
| 2006 | ITS | Cognitive Tutors as Research Platforms: Extending an Established Tutoring System for Collaborative and Metacognitive Experimentation. | Erin Walker, Kenneth R. Koedinger, Bruce M. McLaren, Nikol Rummel |
| 2005 | AIED | Rapid development of computer-based tutors with the Cognitive Tutor Authoring Tools (CTAT). | Vincent Aleven, Bruce M. McLaren, Kenneth R. Koedinger |
| 2005 | AIED | An architecture to combine meta-cognitive and cognitive tutoring: Pilot testing the Help Tutor. | Vincent Aleven, Ido Roll, Bruce M. McLaren, Eunjeong Ryu, Kenneth R. Koedinger |
| 2005 | AIED | Collaboration and Cognitive Tutoring: Integration, Empirical Results, and Future Directions. | Andreas Harrer, Bruce M. McLaren, Erin Walker, Lars Bollen, Jonathan Sewall |
| 2004 | ICWE | Toward Cognitive Tutoring in a Collaborative, Web-Based Environment. | Bruce M. McLaren, Kenneth R. Koedinger, Mike Schneider, Andreas Harrer, Lars Bollen |
| 2004 | ITS | Toward Tutoring Help Seeking: Applying Cognitive Modeling to Meta-cognitive Skills. | Vincent Aleven, Bruce M. McLaren, Ido Roll, Kenneth R. Koedinger |
| 2004 | ITS | Opening the Door to Non-programmers: Authoring Intelligent Tutor Behavior by Demonstration. | Kenneth R. Koedinger, Vincent Aleven, Neil T. Heffernan, Bruce M. McLaren, Matthew Hockenberry |
| 2001 | ICAIL | An AI investigation of citation's cognitive role. | Kevin D. Ashley, Bruce M. McLaren |
| 2001 | ICCBR | Helping a CBR Program Know What It Knows. | Bruce M. McLaren, Kevin D. Ashley |
| 2000 | AAAI | Assessing Relevance with Extensionally Defined Principles and Cases. | Bruce M. McLaren, Kevin D. Ashley |
| 1999 | ICCBR | Case Representation, Acquisition, and Retrieval in SIROCCO. | Bruce M. McLaren, Kevin D. Ashley |
| 1995 | ICAIL | Context Sensitive Case Comparisons in Practical Ethics: Reasoning About Reasons. | Bruce M. McLaren, Kevin D. Ashley |
| 1995 | ICCBR | Reasoning with Reasons in Case-Based Comparisons. | Kevin D. Ashley, Bruce M. McLaren |