Macroadapting Animalwatch to Gender and Cognitive Differnces with Respect to Hint Interactivity and Symbolism

  • Authors:
  • Ivon Arroyo;Joseph Beck;Beverly Park Woolf;Carole R. Beal;Klaus Schultz

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-;-;-;-

  • Venue:
  • ITS '00 Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Intelligent Tutoring Systems
  • Year:
  • 2000

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Abstract

We have built empirical models of elementary-school students' behavior from analyzing student interaction with a mathematics tutor with the objective of building teaching policies for individually different students. This model incorporates external information about the student, namely cognitive development and gender. It also incorporates hint features, namely the degree of interactivity and symbolism of each hint given. We found that boys benefit better from noninteractive and low-intrusive hints, while girls benefit better from highly interactive hints. We found that low symbolic hints are more effective for low cognitive ability students than highly symbolic ones, and the opposite happens for high cognitive ability students.