TY - GEN
T1 - Gender differences and the value of choice in intelligent tutoring systems
AU - Green, Derek T.
AU - Walsh, Thomas J.
AU - Cohen, Paul R.
AU - Beal, Carole R.
AU - Chang, Yu Han
PY - 2011
Y1 - 2011
N2 - Students interacted with an intelligent tutoring system to learn grammatical rules for an artificial language. Six tutoring policies were explored. One, based on a Dynamic Bayes' Network model of skills, was learned from the performance of previous students. Overall, this policy and other intelligent policies outperformed random policies. Some policies allowed students to choose one of three problems to work on, while others presented a single problem at each iteration. The benefit of choice was not apparent in group statistics; however, there was a strong interaction with gender. Overall, women learned less than men, but they learned different amounts in the choice and no choice conditions, whereas men seemed unaffected by choice. We explore reasons for these interactions between gender, choice and learning.
AB - Students interacted with an intelligent tutoring system to learn grammatical rules for an artificial language. Six tutoring policies were explored. One, based on a Dynamic Bayes' Network model of skills, was learned from the performance of previous students. Overall, this policy and other intelligent policies outperformed random policies. Some policies allowed students to choose one of three problems to work on, while others presented a single problem at each iteration. The benefit of choice was not apparent in group statistics; however, there was a strong interaction with gender. Overall, women learned less than men, but they learned different amounts in the choice and no choice conditions, whereas men seemed unaffected by choice. We explore reasons for these interactions between gender, choice and learning.
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U2 - 10.1007/978-3-642-22362-4_30
DO - 10.1007/978-3-642-22362-4_30
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:79960304777
SN - 9783642223617
T3 - Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
SP - 341
EP - 346
BT - User Modeling, Adaption, and Personalization - 19th International Conference, UMAP 2011, Proceedings
T2 - 19th International Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization, UMAP 2011
Y2 - 11 July 2011 through 15 July 2011
ER -