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Direct linkDonnette Narine; Takashi Yamashita; Runcie C. W. Chidebe; Phyllis A. Cummins; Jenna W. Kramer; Rita Karam – Grantee Submission, 2024
Job automation can undermine economic security for workers in general, and older workers, in particular. In this respect, consistently updating one's knowledge and skills is essential for being competitive in a technology-driven labor market. Older workers with lower adult literacy skills experience difficulties with continuous education and…
Descriptors: Automation, Careers, Lifelong Learning, Skill Development
Jennifer Martinez; Daphne Greenberg; Cynthia Puranik; Jason Braasch; Charles MacArthur; Zoi Philippakos; Christine Miller – Grantee Submission, 2024
Motivational research identifies utility value, or the importance of a learning task to future goals, as central to motivation to learn. This study analyzed survey data (N=86) collected from adult literacy learners to examine their utility value of writing improvement in grammar and spelling skills, word processing skills, and planning, drafting,…
Descriptors: Writing Skills, Writing Improvement, Skill Development, Adult Basic Education
Download full textChen, Su; Fang, Ying; Shi, Genghu; Sabatini, John; Greenberg, Daphne; Frijters, Jan; Graesser, Arthur C. – Grantee Submission, 2021
This paper describes a new automated disengagement tracking system (DTS) that detects learners' maladaptive behaviors, e.g. mind-wandering and impetuous responding, in an intelligent tutoring system (ITS), called AutoTutor. AutoTutor is a conversation-based intelligent tutoring system designed to help adult literacy learners improve their reading…
Descriptors: Intelligent Tutoring Systems, Artificial Intelligence, Attention, Adult Literacy
Lippert, Anne; Gatewood, Jessica; Cai, Zhiqiang; Graesser, Arthur C. – Grantee Submission, 2019
One out of six adults in the United States possesses low literacy skills. Many advocates believe that technology can pave the way for these adults to gain the skills that they desire. This article describes an adaptive intelligent tutoring system called AutoTutor that is designed to teach adults comprehension strategies across different levels of…
Descriptors: Intelligent Tutoring Systems, Educational Technology, Adult Literacy, Skill Development
Fang, Ying; Lippert, Anne; Cai, Zhiqiang; Chen, Su; Frijters, Jan C.; Greenberg, Daphne; Graesser, Arthur C. – Grantee Submission, 2021
A common goal of Intelligent Tutoring Systems (ITS) is to provide learning environments that adapt to the varying abilities and characteristics of users. This type of adaptivity is possible only if the ITS has information that characterizes the learning behaviors of its users and can adjust its pedagogy accordingly. This study investigated an…
Descriptors: Intelligent Tutoring Systems, Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education, Reading Comprehension
Shi, Genghu; Pavlik, Philip, Jr.; Graesser, Arthur – Grantee Submission, 2017
After developing an intelligent tutoring system (ITS), or any other class of learning environments, one of the first questions that should be asked is whether the system was effective in helping students learn the targeted skills or subject matter. In this study, we employed two educational data mining models (Additive Factor Model, AFM and…
Descriptors: Intelligent Tutoring Systems, Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education, Program Effectiveness
