Although feedback from interface agents has recently attracted increasing research attention, most studies emphasize the cognitive influences. Thus, the effect of each feedback type on student perception remains unclear. This study focuses on three types of feedback from interface agents to clarify student perception of single feedback and combinations of feedback types. An empirical study of 4...

Teachers, school administrators, and researchers at Xerox have started a collaborative effort to leverage educational data from schools to target the individual needs of students in the classroom. In this paper, we report on our observations of using a data driven methodology to individualize education. First, we discuss the common types of data that schools now collect and the different types ...

We investigate whether an overall student disengagement label and six different labels of disengagement type are predictive of learning in a spoken dialog computer tutoring corpus. Our results show first that although students’ percentage of overall disengaged turns negatively correlates with the amount they learn, the individual types of disengagement correlate differently with learning: some ...

The current investigation sought to understand the relationships between college student alienation, academic achievement, and use of WebCT. Fifty-three students enrolled in an undergraduate educational psychology course provided three types of data: 1) self-rating of eight Likert scale alienation items, 2) academic achievement measured with four types of multiple choice questions evaluating ma...

This longitudinal study adopts a multidimensional perspective to examine the relationships between middle school students’ perceptions of the school environment (structure support, provision of choice, teaching for relevance, teacher and peer emotional support), achievement motivation (academic selfconcept and subjective task value), and school engagement (behavioral, emotional, and cognitive e...

The computer simulation classes in the Computer and Information Sciences and Engineering Department at the University of Florida emphasize a skill set focusing on dynamic system model construction, syntax, and execution. Simulation models are treated as types of formal languages, resulting in instruction that concentrates on key facets of language such as syntax, semantics, and pragmatics. For ...

Title of Document: PARTICIPATORY EQUITY AND STUDENT OUTCOMES IN LIVING-LEARNING PROGRAMS OF DIFFERING THEMATIC TYPES Matthew Edward Soldner Doctor of Philosophy 2011 Directed By: Dr. Karen Kurotsuchi Inkelas Associate Professor College of Education University of Maryland This study evaluated participatory equity in varying thematic types of livinglearning programs and, for a subset of student g...

This study utilized critical incidents and open-ended surveys to develop a focused information technology (IT) user satisfaction survey for use in academia. The resulting Likert-type scale survey was administered to 122 individuals enrolled in three different MBA programs – traditional, distance-learning, and executive – at a large university. Hypothesis testing employed ANOVA and SEM. The resu...

We describe a method to evaluate how student models affect ITS decision quality – their raison d’être. Given logs of randomized tutorial decisions and ensuing student performance, we train a classifier to predict tutor decision outcomes (success or failure) based on situation features, such as student and task. We define a decision policy that selects whichever tutor action the trained classifi...