The Sounds of Silence: Towards Automated Evaluation of Student Learning in a Reading Tutor that Listens - Robotics Institute Carnegie Mellon University

The Sounds of Silence: Towards Automated Evaluation of Student Learning in a Reading Tutor that Listens

Jack Mostow and Gregory Aist
Conference Paper, Proceedings of 14th National Conference on Artificial Intelligence and 9th Conference on Innovative Applications of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI '97/IAAI '97), pp. 355 - 361, July, 1997

Abstract

We propose a paradigm for ecologically valid, authentic, unobtrusive, automatic, data-rich, fast, robust, and sensitive evaluation of computer-assisted student performance. We instantiate this paradigm in the context of a Reading Tutor that listens to children read aloud, and helps them. We introduce inter-word latency as a simple prosodic measure of assisted reading performance. Finally, to validate the measure and analyze performance improvement, we report initial experimental results from the first extended in-school deployment of the Reading Tutor.

BibTeX

@conference{Mostow-1997-14431,
author = {Jack Mostow and Gregory Aist},
title = {The Sounds of Silence: Towards Automated Evaluation of Student Learning in a Reading Tutor that Listens},
booktitle = {Proceedings of 14th National Conference on Artificial Intelligence and 9th Conference on Innovative Applications of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI '97/IAAI '97)},
year = {1997},
month = {July},
pages = {355 - 361},
}