Education
Carnegie Mellon University.
Carnegie Mellon University.
He is known for his role in the development of the ASSISTments service, which helps students learn mathematics even as it assesses their knowledge, and which is used by over 50000 students a year in the United States. He is widely published in intelligent tutoring systems, and educational data mining. His work gained prominence when a New York Times Magazine story by Annie Murphy Paul featured ASSISTments and Heffernan"s research with the tool. Heffernan obtained a bachelor"s degree in History and Computer Science at Amherst College, and a doctorate in Computer Science from Carnegie Mellon University.
His doctoral advisers were Kenneth Koedinger and John Robert Anderson.
Heffernan then worked as Assistant Professor and then Associate Professor at Worcester Polytechnic Institute, establishing the strong Learning Sciences research group in the Computer Science Department at Work Personality Index and the Learning Sciences and Technology graduate program at Work Personality Index.