ERIC Number: EJ1115346
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2013
Pages: 32
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Mining Data from Interactions with a Motivational-Aware Tutoring System Using Data Visualization
Rebolledo-Mendez, Genaro; Du Boulay, Benedict; Luckin, Rosemary; Benitez-Guerrero, Edgard Ivan
Journal of Educational Data Mining, v5 n1 p72-103 2013
Tutoring systems are a common tool for delivering educational content and recent advances in this field include the detection of and reaction to learners' motivation. A data set derived from interactions in a tutoring system and its motivationally-aware variant provided opportunities to discover patterns of behavior in connection with motivational feedback. The data collected consists of individual log files capturing the behavior of the learner during his/her interaction with the system. To mine this data, techniques were employed to discover patterns of interest when motivational scaffolding was provided by the tutoring system. A graph was constructed to visualize these patterns and to identify significant transitions derived from dyads of actions. This is a first step towards analyzing behaviors when motivational scaffolding is provided in a tutoring system. Work for the future consists of investigating the patterns' impact on learning with the motivationally-aware tutoring system.
Descriptors: Data Analysis, Intelligent Tutoring Systems, Student Motivation, Interaction, Student Behavior, Scaffolding (Teaching Technique), Graphs, Feedback (Response), Elementary School Students, Elementary School Science, Ecology, Science Instruction, Foreign Countries
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Elementary Education
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: United Kingdom (England)
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