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

Article type: Research Article

Authors: Rosa, Kevin Dela | Eskenazi, Maxine

Affiliations: Amazon.com, Seattle, WA, USA. [email protected] | Language Technologies Institute, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA, USA

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.

Keywords: Self-assessment, intelligent tutoring systems, motivation diagnosis, motivation modeling, language learning

DOI: 10.3233/JAI-130027

Journal: International Journal of Artificial Intelligence in Education, vol. 21, no. 4, pp. 237-253, 2013