James Lester

James Lester

North Carolina State University

H-index: 66

North America-United States

About James Lester

James Lester, With an exceptional h-index of 66 and a recent h-index of 42 (since 2020), a distinguished researcher at North Carolina State University, specializes in the field of Artificial Intelligence in Education, Learning Technologies, Learning Sciences, Learning Analytics.

His recent articles reflect a diverse array of research interests and contributions to the field:

Engagement of adolescents with ADHD in a narrative-centered game-based behavior change environment to reduce alcohol use

Procedural Level Generation in Educational Games from Natural Language Instruction

Online Reinforcement Learning-Based Pedagogical Planning for Narrative-Centered Learning Environments

Supporting Upper Elementary Students in Learning AI Concepts with Story-Driven Game-Based Learning

Towards Attention-Based Automatic Misconception Identification in Introductory Programming Courses

The AI Institute for Engaged Learning

Co-designing a Classroom Orchestration Assistant for Game-based PBL Environments

Towards Understanding Collaborative Scientific Inquiry Practices in CSCL Classrooms With In-Game Data

James Lester Information

University

Position

Distinguished University Professor of Computer Science

Citations(all)

20741

Citations(since 2020)

7635

Cited By

15272

hIndex(all)

66

hIndex(since 2020)

42

i10Index(all)

277

i10Index(since 2020)

179

Email

University Profile Page

North Carolina State University

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James Lester Skills & Research Interests

Artificial Intelligence in Education

Learning Technologies

Learning Sciences

Learning Analytics

Top articles of James Lester

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Journal

Author(s)

Publication Date

Engagement of adolescents with ADHD in a narrative-centered game-based behavior change environment to reduce alcohol use

Frontiers in Education

Marianne Pugatch

Nathan J Blum

William J Barbaresi

Jonathan Rowe

Mark Berna

...

2024/1/5

Procedural Level Generation in Educational Games from Natural Language Instruction

IEEE Transactions on Games

Vikram Kumaran

Dan Carpenter

Jonathan Rowe

Bradford Mott

James Lester

2024/4/23

Online Reinforcement Learning-Based Pedagogical Planning for Narrative-Centered Learning Environments

Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence

Fahmid Morshed Fahid

Jonathan Rowe

Yeojin Kim

Shashank Srivastava

James Lester

2024/3/24

Supporting Upper Elementary Students in Learning AI Concepts with Story-Driven Game-Based Learning

Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence

Anisha Gupta

Seung Lee

Bradford Mott

Srijita Chakraburty

Krista Glazewski

...

2024/3/24

Towards Attention-Based Automatic Misconception Identification in Introductory Programming Courses

Muntasir Hoq

Jessica Vandenberg

Bradford Mott

James Lester

Narges Norouzi

...

2024/3/14

The AI Institute for Engaged Learning

AI Magazine

James Lester

Mohit Bansal

Gautam Biswas

Cindy Hmelo‐Silver

Jeremy Roschelle

...

2024

Co-designing a Classroom Orchestration Assistant for Game-based PBL Environments

TechTrends

Haesol Bae

Chen Feng

Krista Glazewski

Cindy E Hmelo-Silver

Yuxin Chen

...

2023/11

Towards Understanding Collaborative Scientific Inquiry Practices in CSCL Classrooms With In-Game Data

Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning-CSCL 2023, pp. 396-397

Daeun Hong

Xiaotian Zou

Tianshu Wang

Cindy E Hmelo-Silver

Krista Glazewski

...

2023

Supporting Adolescent Engagement with Artificial Intelligence–Driven Digital Health Behavior Change Interventions

Journal of Medical Internet Research

Alison Giovanelli

Jonathan Rowe

Madelynn Taylor

Mark Berna

Kathleen P Tebb

...

2023/5/24

Robust team communication analytics with transformer-based dialogue modeling

Jay Pande

Wookhee Min

Randall D Spain

Jason D Saville

James Lester

2023/6/26

AI education for K-12: a survey

Ning Wang

James Lester

2023/6/30

Examining the Relationship of Gameplay and Learning in a Narrative-Centered Digital Game for Science Education

Seung Lee

Bradford Mott

Jessica Vandenberg

Hiller A Spires

James Lester

2023/8/21

Early prediction of student knowledge in game‐based learning with distributed representations of assessment questions

British Journal of Educational Technology

Andrew Emerson

Wookhee Min

Roger Azevedo

James Lester

2023/1

Cracking the Code of Learning Gains: Using Ordered Network Analysis to Understand the Influence of Prior Knowledge

Andres Felipe Zambrano

Amanda Barany

Jaclyn Ocumpaugh

Nidhi Nasiar

Stephen Hutt

...

2023/10/8

Learning With Stories: Characteristics and Learning Outcomes in Narrative-Centered Science Learning Environments

Tianshu Wang

Suraj Uttamchandani

Xiaotian Zou

Cindy E Hmelo-Silver

Jonathan Rowe

...

2023

Detecting and mitigating encoded bias in deep learning-based stealth assessment models for reflection-enriched game-based learning environments

International Journal of Artificial Intelligence in Education

Anisha Gupta

Dan Carpenter

Wookhee Min

Jonathan Rowe

Roger Azevedo

...

2023/12/1

The great challenges and opportunities of the next 20 years

Maria Mercedes T Rodrigo

Julita Vassileva

H Chad Lane

Peter Brusilovsky

Sergey Sosnovsky

...

2023/4/21

Enhancing Stealth Assessment in Collaborative Game-Based Learning with Multi-task Learning

Anisha Gupta

Dan Carpenter

Wookhee Min

Bradford Mott

Krista Glazewski

...

2023/6/26

It’s good to explore: investigating silver pathways and the role of frustration during game-based learning

Nidhi Nasiar

Andres F Zambrano

Jaclyn Ocumpaugh

Stephen Hutt

Alexis Goslen

...

2023/6/30

A multi-level growth modeling approach to measuring learner attention with metacognitive pedagogical agents

Metacognition and Learning

Megan Wiedbusch

James Lester

Roger Azevedo

2023/8

See List of Professors in James Lester University(North Carolina State University)

Co-Authors

H-index: 74
Roger Azevedo

Roger Azevedo

University of Central Florida

H-index: 48
Eric Wiebe

Eric Wiebe

North Carolina State University

H-index: 40
Bradford Mott

Bradford Mott

North Carolina State University

H-index: 34
Jonathan Rowe

Jonathan Rowe

North Carolina State University

H-index: 30
Krista Glazewski

Krista Glazewski

Indiana University Bloomington

H-index: 28
Dr. Hiller A. Spires

Dr. Hiller A. Spires

North Carolina State University

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