Importance of Learner Characteristics in Intelligent Tutoring for Adult Literacy

IF 2.1 2区心理学 Q2 PSYCHOLOGY, EDUCATIONAL

Discourse Processes Pub Date : 2023-05-17 DOI:10.1080/0163853X.2023.2203543

J. Hollander, J. Sabatini, A. Graesser, D. Greenberg, T. O’Reilly, Jan C. Frijters

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Abstract

ABSTRACT Adult literacy learners are characterized by their diversity, both in terms of educational histories and cognitive skill sets. Accounting for the specific strengths and weaknesses of each learner is vital to the assessment of literacy gains and optimization of educational systems. We examined pre- and postdifference scores on a component reading skills assessment battery collected before and after an instructional program that included an adult comprehension-focused intelligent tutoring system. By characterizing learners during instruction, we examined differential gains in foundational reading skills. Most learners made gains in reading skills above the word recognition and decoding level; readers who were classified as “conscientious” (who performed slowly but accurately) tended to make the most substantial gains. We conclude that this hybrid instructional program may be an effective educational environment for adult literacy and describe how characterizing learners via integrating assessments into adaptive instructional practice may improve efficiency and effectiveness.

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学习者特征在成人识字智能辅导中的重要性

成人识字学习者的特点是在教育历史和认知技能方面具有多样性。考虑到每个学习者的具体优势和劣势，对于评估扫盲成果和优化教育系统至关重要。我们检查了在一个包含成人理解型智能辅导系统的教学项目前后收集的阅读技能评估组件的差异前和差异后得分。通过在教学中描述学习者的特征，我们检查了基本阅读技能的不同增益。大多数学习者在单词识别和解码水平以上的阅读技能上取得了进步;被归类为“有责任心”(表现缓慢但准确)的读者往往收获最多。我们得出结论，这种混合教学计划可能是成人识字的有效教育环境，并描述了如何通过将评估整合到适应性教学实践中来描述学习者的特征，从而提高效率和效果。

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Discourse Processes Multiple-

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4.30

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4.50%

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期刊介绍： Discourse Processes is a multidisciplinary journal providing a forum for cross-fertilization of ideas from diverse disciplines sharing a common interest in discourse--prose comprehension and recall, dialogue analysis, text grammar construction, computer simulation of natural language, cross-cultural comparisons of communicative competence, or related topics. The problems posed by multisentence contexts and the methods required to investigate them, although not always unique to discourse, are sufficiently distinct so as to require an organized mode of scientific interaction made possible through the journal.