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Table 3 The categories of AI applications in STEM education

From: The application of AI technologies in STEM education: a systematic review from 2011 to 2021

Category

Sub-category

Articles

1. Learning prediction

1a. Learning performance prediction

Bertolini et. al. (2021); Blikstein et. al. (2014); Buenaño-Fernández et. al. (2019); Deo et. al. (2020); Hellings and Haelermans (2020); Khan et. al. (2021); Kinnebrew et. al. (2017); Lamb et. al. (2021); Mahboob et. al. (2020); Matthew et. al. (2018); Spikol et. al. (2018); Xing et. al. (2019); Yahya and Osman (2019); Zabriskie et. al. (2019)

1b. At-risk student prediction

Azcona et. al. (2019); Lacave et. al. (2018); Vyas et. al. (2021); Yang et. al. (2020)

2. Intelligent tutoring system

2a. Instructional content delivery

Hooshyar et. al. (2015); Hooshyar et. al. (2018); Kose and Arslan (2017); Krämer et .al. (2016); Myneni et. al. (2013); Thai et. al. (2021); Tüfekçi and Köse (2013); Troussas et. al. (2021); Wu et. al. (2013)

2b. Recommendation of personalized learning path

De-Marcos et. al. (2015); Gavrilović et. al. (2018); Saito and Watanobe (2020); Zulfiani et. al. (2018)

2c. Resource recommendation

Ledesma and García (2017); Lin and Chen (2020); Zhang et. al. (2020)

3. Student behavior detection

3a. Student behavior analysis

Chrysafiadi and Virvou (2013); Figueiredo et. al. (2016); Hsiao et. al. (2020); Pereira et. al. (2020); Sapounidis et. al. (2019); Suh et. al. (2019); Wang (2016); Zapata-Cáceres and Martin-Barroso (2021)

3b. Student behavior monitoring

Balakrishnan (2018); Berland et. al. (2015); Ji and Han (2019); Yannier et. al. (2020); Yu (2017)

4. Automation

4a. Automated assessment

Alemán (2011); Çınar et. al. (2020); García-Gorrostieta et. al. (2018); Maestrales et. al. (2021); Nehm et. al. (2012); Wang et. al. (2011); Zampirolli et. al. (2021)

4b. Automated questions generation

Aldabe and Maritxalar (2014)

5. Educational robots

5a. Programming robots

Cao et. al. (2021); Ferrarelli and Iocchi (2021); Rodríguez Corral et. al. (2016)

5b. Social robots

Jones and Castellano (2018); Jones et. al. (2018); Verner et. al. (2020)

6. Others

6a. AI textbook

Koć-Januchta et. al. (2020)

6b. Group formation

Tehlan et. al. (2020)