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When the Rubber Meets the Road: Lessons from the In-School Adventures of an Automated Reading Tutor that Listens
J. Mostow and J.E. Beck
Conceptualizing Scale-Up Multidisciplinary Perspectives, B. Schneider, ed., 2005.

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Abstract

Project LISTEN's Reading Tutor (www.cs.cmu.edu/~listen) uses automatic speech recognition to listen to children read aloud, and helps them learn to read. Its experimental deployment in schools has expanded from a single computer used by eight third graders in one school in 1996 to two hundred computers used by children in grades 1-3 in nine schools in 2003. This project illustrates how technology can not just scale up an intervention, but instrument its implementation. For example, analysis of 2002-2003 usage showed that session frequency and duration averaged significantly higher in lab settings than in classrooms.

Notes

Associated lab/group: Project LISTEN
Associated project: Project LISTEN's Reading Tutor

Note: to appear

Text Reference

J. Mostow and J.E. Beck, "When the Rubber Meets the Road: Lessons from the In-School Adventures of an Automated Reading Tutor that Listens," Conceptualizing Scale-Up Multidisciplinary Perspectives, B. Schneider, ed., 2005.

BibTeX Reference

@incollection{Mostow_2005_4988,
   author = "Jack Mostow and Joseph E Beck",
   editor = "B. Schneider",
   title = "When the Rubber Meets the Road: Lessons from the In-School Adventures of an Automated Reading Tutor that Listens",
   booktitle = "Conceptualizing Scale-Up Multidisciplinary Perspectives",
   year = "2005",
   note = "to appear"
}