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Hollander, John; Sabatini, John; Graesser, Art – COABE Journal: The Resource for Adult Education, 2021
Twenty-first century literacy includes a mixture of digital and print literacy skills and strategies. AutoTutor for Adult Reading Comprehension is a web-based intelligent tutoring system that is designed to help adult learners develop effective reading comprehension strategies. Lessons span basic reading skills (vocabulary, word parts),…
Descriptors: Intelligent Tutoring Systems, Adult Literacy, Reading Instruction, Reading Comprehension
Hollander, John; Sabatini, John; Graesser, Art – Grantee Submission, 2021
Twenty-first century literacy includes a mixture of digital and print literacy skills and strategies. AutoTutor for Adult Reading Comprehension is a web-based intelligent tutoring system that is designed to help adult learners develop effective reading comprehension strategies. Lessons span basic reading skills (vocabulary, word parts),…
Descriptors: Intelligent Tutoring Systems, Adult Literacy, Reading Instruction, Reading Comprehension
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Olney, Andrew M.; Bakhtiari, Dariush; Greenberg, Daphne; Graesser, Art – Grantee Submission, 2017
Adaptive learning technologies hold great promise for improving the reading skills of adults with low literacy, but adults with low literacy skills typically have low computer literacy skills. In order to determine whether adults with low literacy skills would be able to use an intelligent tutoring system for reading comprehension, we adapted a 44…
Descriptors: Computer Literacy, Adults, Reading Skills, Adult Literacy
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Olney, Andrew M.; Walker, Breya; Davis, Raven N.; Graesser, Art – Grantee Submission, 2017
Over the past 50 years, an increasing proportion of student graduating high school attend college, but literacy levels in the United States have remained largely unchanged. We present preliminary results that suggest the literacy levels of assessed first year college freshmen are above 5th grade but below 12th grade, that only 32% of these…
Descriptors: College Freshmen, Reading Skills, Adult Literacy, High School Equivalency Programs
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Olney, Andrew M.; Bakhtiari, Dariush; Greenberg, Daphne; Graesser, Art – International Educational Data Mining Society, 2017
Adaptive learning technologies hold great promise for improving the reading skills of adults with low literacy, but adults with low literacy skills typically have low computer literacy skills. In order to determine whether adults with low literacy skills would be able to use an intelligent tutoring system for reading comprehension, we adapted a 44…
Descriptors: Computer Literacy, Reading Comprehension, Intelligent Tutoring Systems, Correlation