Fitting spatial ability and free-formed questions into Intelligent Tutoring Systems development

Nancy Milik; Antonija Mitrovic; Michael Grimley

Fitting spatial ability and free-formed questions into Intelligent Tutoring Systems development

Nancy Milik, Antonija Mitrovic, Michael Grimley

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Abstract

Building effective learning tools is an art that can only be perfected by a great deal of explorations involving the tools' audience: the learners. This paper focuses on accounting for the learners' spatial ability as well as providing an additional help channel in Intelligent Tutoring Systems. We modified ERMTutor, a constraint-based tutor that teaches logical database design, to provide not only textual feedback messages, but also messages containing combinations of text and pictures, in accordance with the multimedia theory of learning [1]. We also added a question-asking module which enables students to ask freeform questions. Results of preliminary studies performed show a promising indication for further explorations. We plan to use these results as the basis for another evaluation study in early 2007.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Education
Place of Publication	Los Angeles, CA, USA
Publisher	Artificial Intelligence in Education
Publication status	Published - 1 Dec 2007
Externally published	Yes
Event	5th New Zealand Computer Science Research Student Conference, NZCSRSC 2007 - Hamilton, New Zealand Duration: 10 Apr 2007 → 13 Apr 2007

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Conference	5th New Zealand Computer Science Research Student Conference, NZCSRSC 2007
Country	New Zealand
City	Hamilton
Period	10/04/07 → 13/04/07

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Milik, N., Mitrovic, A., & Grimley, M. (2007). Fitting spatial ability and free-formed questions into Intelligent Tutoring Systems development. In Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Education Artificial Intelligence in Education.

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Milik, N, Mitrovic, A & Grimley, M 2007, Fitting spatial ability and free-formed questions into Intelligent Tutoring Systems development. in Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Education. Artificial Intelligence in Education, Los Angeles, CA, USA, 5th New Zealand Computer Science Research Student Conference, NZCSRSC 2007, Hamilton, New Zealand, 10/04/07.

Fitting spatial ability and free-formed questions into Intelligent Tutoring Systems development. / Milik, Nancy; Mitrovic, Antonija; Grimley, Michael.

Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Education. Los Angeles, CA, USA : Artificial Intelligence in Education, 2007.

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution

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