Predicting change in student motivation by measuring cohesion between tutor and student

  • Authors:
  • Arthur Ward;Diane Litman;Maxine Eskenazi

  • Affiliations:
  • University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA;University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA;Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA

  • Venue:
  • IUNLPBEA '11 Proceedings of the 6th Workshop on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications
  • Year:
  • 2011

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Abstract

We apply a previously reported measure of dialog cohesion to a corpus of spoken tutoring dialogs in which motivation was measured. We find that cohesion significantly predicts changes in student motivation, as measured with a modified MSLQ instrument. This suggests that non-intrusive dialog measures can be used to measure motivation during tutoring.