Editing ACT-R (section)

===Education===
ACT-R has been often adopted as the foundation for [[cognitive tutors]].<ref>Lewis, M. W., Milson, R., & Anderson, J. R. (1987). The teacher's apprentice: Designing an intelligent authoring system for high school mathematics. In G. P. Kearsley (Ed.), ''Artificial Intelligence and Instruction''. Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley. {{ISBN|0-201-11654-5}}.</ref><ref>Anderson, J. R. & Gluck, K. (2001). What role do cognitive architectures play in intelligent tutoring systems? In D. Klahr & S. M. Carver (Eds.) ''Cognition & Instruction: Twenty-five years of progress'', 227–262. Lawrence Erlbaum Associates. {{ISBN|0-8058-3824-4}}.</ref> These systems use an internal ACT-R model to mimic the behavior of a student and personalize his/her instructions and curriculum, trying to "guess" the difficulties that students may have and provide focused help.

Such "Cognitive Tutors" are being used as a platform for research on learning and cognitive modeling as part of the Pittsburgh Science of Learning Center.  Some of the most successful applications, like the Cognitive Tutor for Mathematics, are used in thousands of schools across the United States.