Fitting Spatial Ability into Intelligent Tutoring Systems Development

Authors:
Nancy Milik;Antonija Mitrovic;Michael Grimley
Affiliations:
Department of Computer Science and Software Engineering;Department of Computer Science and Software Engineering;Department of Education, University of Canterbury, New Zealand
Venue:
Proceedings of the 2007 conference on Artificial Intelligence in Education: Building Technology Rich Learning Contexts That Work
Year:
2007

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Abstract

Building effective learning environments is an art that can only be perfected by a great deal of explorations involving the environments' audience: the learners. This paper focuses on taking into account the learners' spatial ability into the development of Intelligent Tutoring Systems. We modified ERM-Tutor, a constraint-based tutor that teaches logical database design, to provide not only textual feedback messages, but also messages containing combinations of text and pictures, in accordance with the multimedia theory of learning [1]. Results of a preliminary study performed show a promising indication for further explorations. We plan to use these results as the basis for another evaluation study in early 2007.