{"id":2082,"date":"2021-05-31T15:27:44","date_gmt":"2021-05-31T19:27:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.myedmaster.com\/?page_id=2082"},"modified":"2021-12-14T16:05:08","modified_gmt":"2021-12-14T21:05:08","slug":"aieducational","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.myedmaster.com\/aieducational\/","title":{"rendered":"AI Educational Software Project"},"content":{"rendered":"

[vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1435816078010{margin-bottom: 15px !important;}”][vc_column][vc_custom_heading text=”Goal:” font_container=”tag:h3|text_align:left|line_height:26px” google_fonts=”font_family:Montserrat%3Aregular%2C700|font_style:400%20regular%3A400%3Anormal” css=”.vc_custom_1622491674668{margin-bottom: 20px !important;}”][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1622913489927{margin-bottom: 32px !important;}”]At MyEdMaster, a team of professionals and students are working together to create the first of its kind fully-automated online tutoring service that uses artificial intelligence (AI) technology to teach students.[\/vc_column_text][vc_custom_heading text=”Rationale:” font_container=”tag:h3|text_align:left|line_height:26px” google_fonts=”font_family:Montserrat%3Aregular%2C700|font_style:400%20regular%3A400%3Anormal” css=”.vc_custom_1622491764337{margin-bottom: 20px !important;}”][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1622913507843{margin-bottom: 32px !important;}”]According to the US Department of Education\u2019s National Assessment of Educational Progress, roughly 90% of US students perform below grade level in at least one academic subject.\u00a0 <\/span>This means that more than 50 million students in the US alone (and countless millions more worldwide) need help. However, over the years, the Government has spent billions of dollars on school reform, and the US Department of Education\u2019s own assessments show that these efforts have produced little in the way of results.<\/p>\n

Fortunately, there is a \u201ccure\u201d for education:\u00a0 <\/span>tutoring.\u00a0 <\/span>Working with students individually and teaching them based on their individual learning needs have been shown scientifically and commercially (in tutoring centers such as MyEdMaster) to reliably produce large educational gains in students.\u00a0 <\/span>The challenge is that tutoring is not scalable.\u00a0 <\/span>First, many commercial services charge $50-$70 per hour for two-hour tutoring sessions, and, even then, their tutors teach more than one student at a time.\u00a0 <\/span>High quality 1-1 tutors often charge more than $100 per hour.\u00a0 <\/span>These prices are beyond what many families can afford, particularly those with more than one child.\u00a0 <\/span>Second, even if tutoring were more affordable, there simply are not enough quality tutors available for the more than 50 million US students who need them.<\/p>\n

Consequently, even with available Government-funded tutoring programs helping low-income families, only about 5% of students who need tutoring actually receive help.\u00a0 <\/span>This means that 95% of students who need help go unserved. As a result, 40% of US students graduate high school without even basic math or science skills and 30% graduate without basic reading skills.\u00a0 <\/span>This creates a tremendous need and a tremendous opportunity.<\/p>\n

Our solution is to create a fully-automated, online tutoring service where AI software does the teaching. By using AI as our tutor, we eliminate the cost of the human instructor.\u00a0 <\/span>By placing the service online, we make it universally available, around the world even, on any platform.\u00a0 <\/span>This service will reach any student, anywhere, at any time and teach him or her at a fraction of the cost that human tutors charge.\u00a0 <\/span>This type of disruptive service has the ability to transform global education, which is the reason Dr. John Leddo started MyEdMaster in the first place.[\/vc_column_text][stm_multy_separator css=”.vc_custom_1435819083449{margin-bottom: 64px !important;}”][vc_custom_heading text=”Our Technology” font_container=”tag:h3|text_align:left|line_height:26px” google_fonts=”font_family:Montserrat%3Aregular%2C700|font_style:400%20regular%3A400%3Anormal” css=”.vc_custom_1622491795840{margin-bottom: 20px !important;}”][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1622913552708{margin-bottom: 32px !important;}”]Our proprietary AI technology is based on years of scientific research conducted by Dr. Leddo on how to teach people to become experts at what they do. Therefore, at the core of our technology is a knowledge model of what it means to master a subject area.\u00a0 <\/span>We build our AI teaching approach around this knowledge model and design it to teach the way a human would.<\/p>\n

A human tutor teaches a student individually, based on what he or she knows and needs to learn.\u00a0 <\/span>The tutor assesses not only whether a student can give the right answer, but also what he or she knows.\u00a0 <\/span>The tutor looks at a student\u2019s step-by-step work to understand why the student makes mistakes and talks to the student to see whether the student understands critical concepts.\u00a0 <\/span>Our software works the same way.\u00a0 <\/span>After every lesson, the software talks to the student to ask him or her questions about critical concepts to make sure the student understands them.\u00a0 <\/span>Any misconceptions are immediately corrected.\u00a0 <\/span>When the student engages in problem solving activities, s\/he does his or her work step by step.\u00a0 <\/span>The software evaluates the step-by-step work and corrects specific errors.\u00a0 <\/span>It can even give the student hints if s\/he gets stuck along the way.<\/p>\n

A human tutor does more than just direct learning.\u00a0 <\/span>The tutor also responds to the student.\u00a0 <\/span>When a student is confused, s\/he can ask the tutor questions.\u00a0 <\/span>So, too, can students ask our software questions.\u00a0 <\/span>After all, this capability exists in smart phones, so why shouldn\u2019t it exist in educational software? Moreover, a student can also ask a tutor for help with homework assignments or reviewing test study guides.\u00a0 <\/span>So, too, can a student enter his or her homework or test study guide into our software and receive the same, step-by-step help s\/he would receive as when doing one of our problems.\u00a0 <\/span>The software even adapts its hints and corrective feedback to the specific information and numbers contained in the problem the student entered.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Our technology has been scientifically-validated and the results have been published in professional scientific journals.\u00a0 <\/span>In one study, students using our software outperformed those using Khan Academy\u2019s by 80%.\u00a0 <\/span>In another, students using our software outperformed those using Pearson Education\u2019s (the world\u2019s largest educational publisher) electronic textbooks by 300%.\u00a0 <\/span>Finally, students using our software outperformed those taught by experienced math teachers by 37%.\u00a0 <\/span>We know of no other educational software that can make this claim.<\/p>\n

As impressive as these results are, what is even more impressive is how our software achieved the results it did.\u00a0 <\/span>For example, when teachers taught students in our study, about one-third scored in the A range, one-third in the B to C range, and one-third were in the failing range.\u00a0 <\/span>This matches the general performance pattern found in the National Assessment of Educational Progress. However, when students used our software, about 60% scored in the A range and the remaining scored in the B to C range. The average score was about 90%. No student scored below 70%.\u00a0 <\/span>Imagine if schools could report that no student ever scored below 70% and the average score was 90%. This would be seen as a miracle! What\u2019s even more impressive is how well our software holds up as students progress from easier to harder material.\u00a0 <\/span>In our Khan Academy study, students using Khan Academy\u2019s software averaged 70% on the easiest material, but their performance dropped to 16% on the hardest.\u00a0 <\/span>On the other hand, students using our software averaged 90% on the easiest material and 88% on the hardest, which was statistically equal to their performance on the easiest material.\u00a0 <\/span>In other words, our software has been shown to teach every student, and it is as effective with difficult topics as it is with easier topics.<\/p>\n

We offer links to our published papers below. Note in the MyEdMaster vs Khan Academy paper, we refer to our software at \u201cA-list Empire\u201d as we were planning to market it through a start-up company we created.\u00a0 <\/span>However, the software will be marketed now through MyEdMaster and A-list Empire no longer exists.[\/vc_column_text][vc_btn title=”Download Khan Academy paper here” style=”custom” custom_background=”#1256d0″ custom_text=”#ffffff” shape=”square” size=”sm” align=”left” i_icon_fontawesome=”far fa-file” add_icon=”true” link=”url:https%3A%2F%2Fwww.myedmaster.com%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2021%2F05%2FMyEdMaster-vs-Khan-Academy.pdf|target:_blank”][vc_btn title=”Download Pearson Education paper here” style=”custom” custom_background=”#1256d0″ custom_text=”#ffffff” shape=”square” size=”sm” align=”left” i_icon_fontawesome=”far fa-file” add_icon=”true” link=”url:https%3A%2F%2Fwww.myedmaster.com%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2021%2F05%2FMyEdMaster-vs-Pearson.pdf|target:_blank”][vc_btn title=”Download MyEdMaster vs. Teacher here” style=”custom” custom_background=”#1256d0″ custom_text=”#ffffff” shape=”square” size=”sm” align=”left” i_icon_fontawesome=”far fa-file” add_icon=”true” link=”url:https%3A%2F%2Fwww.myedmaster.com%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2021%2F05%2FMyEdMaster-vs-teacher.pdf|target:_blank”][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1622492267801{margin-bottom: 32px !important;}”]You can also see a video demonstration of our technology by clicking on this link:<\/span>[\/vc_column_text][vc_video el_aspect=”43″ link=”https:\/\/www.myedmaster.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/MyEdMaster-software-video.mp4″ image=”2118″][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1435816078010{margin-bottom: 15px !important;}”][vc_column][stm_multy_separator css=”.vc_custom_1435819083449{margin-bottom: 64px !important;}”][vc_custom_heading text=”Future Technology Features” font_container=”tag:h3|text_align:left|line_height:26px” google_fonts=”font_family:Montserrat%3Aregular%2C700|font_style:400%20regular%3A400%3Anormal” css=”.vc_custom_1622914439051{margin-bottom: 20px !important;}”][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1622913624735{margin-bottom: 32px !important;}”]Any technology needs to be continually improved to keep it competitive. In our case, improvements are designed to improve the power of our technology and increase its educational effectiveness.\u00a0 <\/span>Current R&D projects we are working on include:<\/p>\n

Machine Learning to learning how to best answer students\u2019 questions so that students will learn better<\/b><\/p>\n

One feature of our technology and also of many personal assistants is the capability for a user to verbally ask a question and have the software answer it.\u00a0 <\/span>Just as there are many ways to ask a question, so, too, are there many ways to answer one.\u00a0 <\/span>Personal assistants typically have a single way to answer any given question.\u00a0 <\/span>However, people know that, in practice, different explanations work better for different people.<\/p>\n

Our goal is to use machine learning so that our software can learn best how to answer user questions to help the user learn best.\u00a0 <\/span>This is a complex problem that raises a number of questions such as;<\/p>\n