Masthoff, Judith (2002) Design and evaluation of a navigation agent with a mixed locus of control In: Cerri, S.A., Gouarderes, G. and Paraguacu, F., eds. Intelligent tutoring systems: 6th international conference, ITS 2002, Biarritz, France and San Sebastian, Spain, June 2-7, 2002. Proceedings. Lecture notes in computer science, 2363/2002 . Springer, Berlin, Germany, pp. 231-245. ISBN 03029743Full text not available from this repository.
The effectiveness of a Navigation Agent has been evaluated, which determines a path through course material tailored to the individual student. Lesson selection by the agent showed an advantage for students who were unable to monitor their own learning process. Initiative by the agent - where the agent also chooses the moment for selecting another lesson - reduced the time needed to finish the task by stimulating the students to study the lessons in a balanced way. The experiment also provides evidence that a mixed locus of control is preferable to either the student or the agent exclusively taking the initiative and selecting lessons.
|Item Type:||Chapter in book|
|Subjects:||G000 Computing and Mathematical Sciences|
|Faculties:||Faculty of Science and Engineering > School of Computing, Engineering and Mathematics > Computational Intelligence|
|Depositing User:||Helen Webb|
|Date Deposited:||28 Sep 2007|
|Last Modified:||20 Jun 2012 13:42|
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