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ERIC Number: EJ1244318
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2020-Apr
Pages: 19
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ISSN: ISSN-0735-6331
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Generating Reliable Feedback about Students' Performances within an Automated Reading Tutor
Sheehan, Kathleen M.; Napolitano, Diane
Journal of Educational Computing Research, v58 n2 p459-477 Apr 2020
Personalized learning technologies such as automated reading tutors have been proposed as a way to help struggling readers acquire needed skills while simultaneously encouraging engaged, sustained reading of entire books. This article investigates a key step in the development of such technologies: translating an entire novel into a sequence of nonoverlapping reading passages, so that valid feedback about students' performances can be generated at the end of each tutoring session. A critical reliability issue that may be introduced at this step is identified, an approach for addressing that issue is proposed, and an evaluation conducted with respect to three popular middle-grade novels is presented. The findings suggest that our new approach provides more reliable evidence about students' abilities and thus may be more appropriate for use when building automated reading tutors.
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
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Language: English
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