Self-Assessment in the REAP Tutor: Knowledge, Interest, Motivation, & Learning

  • Authors:
  • Kevin Dela Rosa;Maxine Eskenazi

  • Affiliations:
  • Amazon.com, Seattle, WA, USA. kdelaros@cs.cmu.edu;Language Technologies Institute, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA, USA

  • Venue:
  • International Journal of Artificial Intelligence in Education
  • Year:
  • 2013

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Abstract

Self-assessment questionnaires have long been used in tutoring systems to help researchers measure and evaluate various aspects of a student's performance during learning activities. In this paper, we chronicle the efforts made in the REAP project, a language tutor developed to teach vocabulary to ESL students through reading activities, to understand the usefulness of self-assessment questionnaires for gauging knowledge, motivation, and interest. Additionally, we discuss the appropriate use of self-assessment questions and correlations we have found with learning and user behavior.