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Automated Vocabulary Instruction in a Reading Tutor

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Intelligent Tutoring Systems (ITS 2006)

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This paper presents a within-subject, randomized experiment to compare automated interventions for teaching vocabulary to young readers using Project LISTEN’s Reading Tutor. The experiment compared three conditions: no explicit instruction, a quick definition, and a quick definition plus a post-story battery of extended instruction based on a published instructional sequence for human teachers. A month long study with elementary school children indicates that the quick instruction, which lasts about seven seconds, has immediate effects on learning gains that did not persist. Extended instruction which lasted about thirty seconds longer than the quick instruction had a persistent effect and produced gains on a posttest one week later.

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  1. School of Computing, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, 84112, USA

    Cecily Heiner

  2. School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, 15213, USA

    Cecily Heiner, Joseph Beck & Jack Mostow

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  1. JAIST, 1-1, Asahi-dai, Nomi, 923-1292, Ishikawa, Japan

    Mitsuru Ikeda

  2. Learning Research and Development Center, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA

    Kevin D. Ashley

  3. Graduate Institute of Network Learning Technology, National Central University, 300, Jhongda Rd., 32001, Jhongli City,Taoyuan County, Taiwan

    Tak-Wai Chan

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Heiner, C., Beck, J., Mostow, J. (2006). Automated Vocabulary Instruction in a Reading Tutor. In: Ikeda, M., Ashley, K.D., Chan, TW. (eds) Intelligent Tutoring Systems. ITS 2006. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 4053. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11774303_86

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  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/11774303_86

  • Publisher Name: Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg

  • Print ISBN: 978-3-540-35159-7

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