Learning with intelligent tutors and worked examples: selecting learning activities adaptively leads to better learning outcomes than a fixed curriculum
User Modeling and User-Adapted Interaction(2016)
摘要
The main learning activity provided by intelligent tutoring systems is problem solving, although several recent projects investigated the effectiveness of combining problem solving with worked examples. Previous research has shown that learning from examples is an effective learning strategy, especially for novice learners. A worked example provides step-by-step explanations of how a problem is solved. Many studies have compared learning from examples to unsupported problem solving, and suggested presenting worked examples to students in the initial stages of learning, followed by problem solving once students have acquired enough knowledge. This paper presents a study in which we compare a fixed sequence of alternating worked examples and tutored problem solving with a strategy that adapts learning tasks to students’ needs. The adaptive strategy determines the type of the task (a worked example, a faded example or a problem to be solved) based on how much assistance the student received on the previous problem. The results show that students in the adaptive condition learnt significantly more than their peers who were presented with a fixed sequence of worked examples and problem solving. Novices from the adaptive condition learnt faster than novices from the control group, while the advanced students from the adaptive condition learnt more than their peers from the control group.
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Intelligent tutoring system,Adaptive selection of learning tasks,Assistance,Self-explanation
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