The 10th International Conference on Intelligent Tutoring Systems, ITS 2010, cont- ued the bi-annual series of top-flight international conferences on the use of advanced educational technologies that are adaptive to users or groups of users.

Invited Talks.- Can Research-Based Technology Change School-Based Learning? Perspectives from Singapore.- Modeling Emotion and Its Expression.- Active Learning in Technology-Enhanced Environments: On Sensible and Less Sensible Conceptions of “Active” and Their Instructional Consequences.- Riding the Third Wave.- Social and Caring Tutors.- Educational Data Mining 1.- Predicting Correctness of Problem Solving in ITS with a Temporal Collaborative Filtering Approach.- Detecting the Moment of Learning.- Comparing Knowledge Tracing and Performance Factor Analysis by Using Multiple Model Fitting Procedures.- Natural Language Interaction 1.- Automatic Question Generation for Literature Review Writing Support.- Characterizing the Effectiveness of Tutorial Dialogue with Hidden Markov Models.- Exploiting Predictable Response Training to Improve Automatic Recognition of Children’s Spoken Responses.- ITS in Ill-Defined Domains.- Leveraging a Domain Ontology to Increase the Quality of Feedback in an Intelligent Tutoring System.- Modeling Long Term Learning of Generic Skills.- Eliciting Informative Feedback in Peer Review: Importance of Problem-Specific Scaffolding.- Inquiry Learning.- Layered Development and Evaluation for Intelligent Support in Exploratory Environments: The Case of Microworlds.- The Invention Lab: Using a Hybrid of Model Tracing and Constraint-Based Modeling to Offer Intelligent Support in Inquiry Environments.- Discovering and Recognizing Student Interaction Patterns in Exploratory Learning Environments.- Collaborative and Group Learning 1.- Lesson Study Communities on Web to Support Teacher Collaboration for Professional Development.- Using Problem-Solving Context to Assess Help Quality in Computer-Mediated Peer Tutoring.- Socially Capable ConversationalTutors Can Be Effective in Collaborative Learning Situations.- Intelligent Games 1.- Facial Expressions and Politeness Effect in Foreign Language Training System.- Intercultural Negotiation with Virtual Humans: The Effect of Social Goals on Gameplay and Learning.- Gaming the System.- An Analysis of Gaming Behaviors in an Intelligent Tutoring System.- The Fine-Grained Impact of Gaming (?) on Learning.- Squeezing Out Gaming Behavior in a Dialog-Based ITS.- Pedagogical Strategies 1.- Analogies, Explanations, and Practice: Examining How Task Types Affect Second Language Grammar Learning.- Do Micro-Level Tutorial Decisions Matter: Applying Reinforcement Learning to Induce Pedagogical Tutorial Tactics.- Examining the Role of Gestures in Expert Tutoring.- Affect 1.- A Time for Emoting: When Affect-Sensitivity Is and Isn’t Effective at Promoting Deep Learning.- The Affective and Learning Profiles of Students Using an Intelligent Tutoring System for Algebra.- The Impact of System Feedback on Learners’ Affective and Physiological States.- Games and Augmented Reality.- Investigating the Relationship between Presence and Learning in a Serious Game.- Developing Empirically Based Student Personality Profiles for Affective Feedback Models.- Evaluating the Usability of an Augmented Reality Based Educational Application.- Pedagogical Agents, Learning Companions, and Teachable Agents.- What Do Children Favor as Embodied Pedagogical Agents?.- Learning by Teaching SimStudent: Technical Accomplishments and an Initial Use with Students.- The Effect of Motivational Learning Companions on Low Achieving Students and Students with Disabilities.- Intelligent Tutoring and Scaffolding 1.- Use of a Medical ITS Improves Reporting Performance among Community Pathologists.- Hints: Is It Better toGive or Wait to Be Asked?.- Error-Flagging Support for Testing and Its Effect on Adaptation.- Metacognition.- Emotions and Motivation on Performance during Multimedia Learning: How Do I Feel and Why Do I Care?.- Metacognition and Learning in Spoken Dialogue Computer Tutoring.- A Self-regulator for Navigational Learning in Hyperspace.- Pedagogical Strategies 2.- How Adaptive Is an Expert Human Tutor?.- Blocked versus Interleaved Practice with Multiple Representations in an Intelligent Tutoring System for Fractions.- Improving Math Learning through Intelligent Tutoring and Basic Skills Training.