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Abstract

Analyzing the time allocation of students' activities in a school-deployed mixed initiative tutor can be illuminating but surprisingly tricky. We discuss some complementary methods that we have used to understand how tutoring time is spent, such as analyzing sample videotaped sessions by hand, and querying a database generated from session logs. We identify issues, methods, and lessons that may be relevant to other tutors. One theme is that iterative design of "non-tutoring" components can enhance a tutor's effectiveness, not by improved teaching, but by reducing the time wasted on non-learning activities. Another is that it is possible to relate student's time allocation to improvements in various outcome measures.

Notes

Associated Lab(s) / Group(s): Project LISTEN

Associated Project(s): Project LISTEN's Reading Tutor

Text Reference

Jack Mostow, Gregory Aist, Joseph E. Beck, R. Chalasani, Andrew Cuneo, P. Jia, and K. Kadaru, "A La Recherche du Temps Perdu, or As Time Goes By: Where does the time go in a Reading Tutor that listens?," Sixth International Conference on Intelligent Tutoring Systems (ITS'2002), June, 2002.

BibTeX Reference

@inproceedings{Mostow_2002_4070,
   author = "Jack Mostow and Gregory Aist and Joseph E Beck and R. Chalasani and Andrew Cuneo and P. Jia and K. Kadaru",
   title = "A La Recherche du Temps Perdu, or As Time Goes By: Where does the time go in a Reading Tutor that listens?",
   booktitle = "Sixth International Conference on Intelligent Tutoring Systems (ITS'2002)",
   publisher = "Springer-Verlag",
   month = "June",
   year = "2002",
}

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