Marvin Croy

Marvin J. Croy

Professor of Philosophy, UNC Charlotte

2007-2010: Vice-President, International Association for Computing and Philosophy

2003-2007: Chair, Committee on Philosophy and Computers,
American Philosophical Association

Office: Winningham 105C
Phone: (704) 687-2174
Fax: (704) 687-2172
E-Mail: mjcroy@uncc.edu

Education

Ph.D. in Philosophy from Florida State University.

B.A. in Psychology from Florida State University.

Areas of Specialization

Educational applications of computer technology, especially using computers to teach logic; philosophy of science; philsophy of education; philosophy of technology.

Current Projects

Using data mining techniques to provide individualized hints for learning deductive proof construction (Co-investigators: Dr. Tiffany Barnes, Mr. John Stamper, Dept of Computer Science, UNC Charlotte).
Exploring complex adaptive systems as a means of modeling rapid changes in performance as students learn to match deductive rule patterns to instances; (North Carolina Complex Systems Institute, UNC Charlotte).
Development of web based materials for teaching cognitive science.
Interface design for deductive proof construction.
Assessing the costs and benefits of Distance Education.

GRANTS, AWARDS, AND RESEARCH ACTIVITIES

2005-2008: Senior Project Member, National Science Foundation grant, Research Experiences for Undergraduates in Cognitive Science, $300.000.

2004-2008: Senior Project Member, National Science Foundation grant, “Building Capability in Philosophical Approaches to Ethics and Science and Technology,” $81,000.

1999-2001: Co-Project Director, National Science Foundation Grant, "Web Based Materials for Teaching Interdisciplinary Cognitive Science," $200,000.

1997: Principal Investigator, National Science Foundation Grant, "Computer Technology and Higher Education in America," Summer Stipend, $15,000.

1994: Funded participant, National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Institute on "Re-Thinking Technology" held at Pennsylvania State University, June-July.

1993: Co-Principal Investigator, National Science Foundation Grant (Instrumentation and Laboratory Improvement Program) and The University of North Carolina at Charlotte Foundation, "An Undergraduate Research Experience in Cognitive Science," $61,000 (PI = Mirsad Hadzikadic)

1991: Selected as one of the most successful CAI projects in the USA and CANADA in a competition sponsored by EDUCOM (The Joe Wyatt Challenge).

1990: Principal Investigator, National Science Foundation Grant, "The Bearing of Computer Technology on Human Interaction and Individualization in Education," $91,013.

l983: Funded participant, National Endowment for the Humanities Grant ($2,700), Summer Seminar at the University of Maryland, College Park, “Philosophical Implications of Cognitive Science.“

PUBLICATIONS (Journal Articles and Book Chapters - since 1993)

Croy, M., Barnes, T., and Stamper, J. (2008). “Towards an Intelligent Tutoring System for Propositional Proof Construction,” in Computing and Philosophy, A. Briggle, K. Waelbers, and P. Brey (Eds.), IOS Press, Amsterdam, Netherlands pp. 145-155.

Stamper, J., Barnes, T., Lehmann, L., Croy, M (2008). “The Hint Factory: Automatic Generation of Contextualized Help for Existing Computer Aided Instruction. ” In G. Gouarderes, & R.M. Vicari (Eds.) Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Intelligent Tutoring Systems, pp. 71-78. Montreal, Canada.

Barnes, T., Stamper, J., Lehmann, L., Croy, M (2008). “A Pilot Study on Logic Proof Tutoring Using Hints Generated from Historical Student Data.” In R. Baker, T. Barnes, J. Beck (Eds.) Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Educational Data Mining (EDM 2008), pp. 197-201. Montreal, Canada.

Stamper, J., Barnes, T., Croy, M. (2007) “Extracting Student Models for Intelligent Tutoring Systems.” In Proceedings of the 22nd AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI 2007), pp. 1900-1901. Menlo Park, CA: AAAI Press.

Croy, M. (2005). “Incrementalism” and “Social Engineering” Encyclopedia of Science, Technology and Ethics, Macmillan.

Croy, M. (2004). “Making Useful Comparisons of Traditional, Hybrid, and Distance Approaches to Teaching Deductive Logic,” Discourse, 4(1), 159-170.

Croy, M. (2002). " Philosophy of Mind, Cognitive Science, and Pedagogical Technique," Metaphilosophy, 33(1), 49-69. (Re-Printed in Cyber Philosophy: the Intersection of Computing and Philosophy, Oxford: Blackwell.)

Croy, M. (2000). "Problem Solving, Working Backwards, and Graphic Proof Representation," Teaching Philosophy, 23(2), 169-187.

Croy, M. (2000) "Faculty as Machine Monitors in Higher Education?," Bulletin of Science, Technology, and Society, 20(2), 106-114.

Croy, M. (1999). "Graphic Interface Design and Deductive Proof Construction," Journal of Computers in Mathematics and Science Teaching,18(4), 371-386.

Croy M. (1998). "Distance Education, Individualization, and the Demise of the University," Technology in Society, 20, 317-326.

Croy, M., (1997) "An Incrementalist View of Proposed Uses of Information Technology in Higher Education," Philosophy in the Contemporary World, 4, 21-28.

Croy, M., (1996) "Collingridge and the Control of Educational Computer Technology," Techne': Journal of the Society for Philosophy and Technology,1(4), 1-15.

Croy, M., Green, M., & Cook, J. (1995) "Assessing the Impact of a Proposed Expert System via Simulation,” Journal of Educational Computing Research, 13, 1-15.

Croy, M., Cook, J., & Green, M. (1993) "Human versus Computer Feedback : An Empirical and Pragmatic Study,” Journal of Research in Computers and Education, 27, 185-204.

Croy, M. (1993) "CAI to Enhance Human Interaction in Learning Deductive Proof Construction,” in 101 Success Stories of Information Technology in Higher Education: The Joe Wyatt Challenge. edited by J. V. Boettcher, New York : McGraw-Hill, Inc., pp. 501-506.

List of Conference Presentations

Logic Learning Tools (applets)

Cognitive Science Links (Academy, Minor, Resources, etc.

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