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Brian Tobin
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No longer a member of RI.

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Past Labs & Groups

Project LISTEN - Literacy/Language/Learning Innovation/Instruction that Speech Technology ENables

Past Projects

Project LISTEN's Reading Tutor - Project LISTEN's Reading Tutor listens to children read aloud.

Recent publications [View all 13 publications]

• 4-Month Evaluation of a Learner-controlled Reading Tutor that Listens
  J. Mostow, G. Aist, C. Huang, B. Junker, R. Kennedy, H. Lan, D.T. Latimer, IV, R. O'Connor, R. Tassone, B. Tobin, and A. Wierman
  Speech Technology for Language Learning, V. M. Holland, F. N. Fisher, ed., Swets & Zeitlinger Publishers, Lisse, The Netherlands, 2005.

• Using automated questions to assess reading comprehension, vocabulary, and effects of tutorial interventions
  J. Mostow, J.E. Beck, J. Bey, A. Cuneo, J. Sison, B. Tobin, and J. Valeri
  Technology, Instruction, Cognition and Learning, Vol. 2, 2004, pp. 97 - 134. [Abstract]
  Download: pdf [618 KB] copyrighted

• An Embedded Experiment to Evaluate the Effectiveness of Vocabulary Previews in an Automated Reading Tutor
  J. Mostow, J.E. Beck, J. Bey, A. Cuneo, J. Sison, and B. Tobin
  Tenth Annual Meeting of the Society for Scientific Studies of Reading, June, 2003. [Abstract]

• Evaluation of an automated Reading Tutor that listens: Comparison to human tutoring and classroom instruction
  J. Mostow, G. Aist, P. Burkhead, A. Corbett, A. Cuneo, S. Eitelman, C. Huang, B. Junker, M.B. Sklar, and B. Tobin
  Journal of Educational Computing Research, Vol. 29, No. 1, January, 2003, pp. 61 - 117. [Abstract]

• Predicting oral reading miscues
  J. Mostow, J.E. Beck, S.V. Winter, S. Wang, and B. Tobin
  Seventh International Conference on Spoken Language Processing (ICSLP-02), September, 2002. [Abstract]
  Download: pdf [39 KB], ps.gz [42 KB] copyrighted

• Automated Comprehension Assessment in a Reading Tutor
  J. Mostow, B. Tobin, and A. Cuneo
  ITS 2002 Workshop on Creating Valid Diagnostic Assessments, June, 2002. [Abstract]
  Download: pdf [232 KB] copyrighted

• Independent practice versus computer-guided oral reading: Equal-time comparison of sustained silent reading to an automated reading tutor that listens
  J. Mostow, G. Aist, J. Bey, P. Burkhead, A. Cuneo, B. Junker, S.M. Rossbach, B. Tobin, J. Valeri, and S. Wilson
  Ninth Annual Meeting of the Society for the Scientific Study of Reading, June, 2002. [Abstract]
  Download: pdf [18 KB] copyrighted

• Evaluation of an automated Reading Tutor that listens: Comparison to human tutoring and classroom instruction
  J. Mostow, G. Aist, P. Burkhead, unknown, A. Cuneo, S. Eitelman, C. Huang, B. Junker, M.B. Sklar, and B. Tobin
  Journal of Educational Computing Research, Vol. 28, 2002. [Abstract]

• A hands-on demonstration of Project LISTEN's Reading Tutor and its embedded experiments
  J. Mostow, G. Aist, J. Bey, P. Burkhead, A. Cuneo, S.M. Rossbach, B. Tobin, J. Valeri, and S. Wilson
  The Second Meeting of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, June, 2001. [Abstract]
  Download: pdf [34 KB] copyrighted

• A controlled evaluation of computer- versus human-assisted oral reading
  J. Mostow, G. Aist, P. Burkhead, A. Corbett, A. Cuneo, S. Eitelman, C. Huang, B. Junker, B. Platz, M.B. Sklar, and B. Tobin
  Proceedings of the Tenth Artificial Intelligence in Education (AI-ED) Conference, May, 2001. [Abstract]
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