Diagnosing Reading Deficiencies of Adults with Low Literacy Skills in an Intelligent Tutoring System

• Published in: Grantee Submission
• Main Authors: Shi, Genghu, Hampton, Andrew J, Chen, Su, Fang, Ying, Graesser, Arthur C
• Format: Report
• Language: English
• Published: 01.06.2018
• Subjects: Accuracy; Adult Learning; Adult Literacy; Educational Technology; Foreign Countries; Intelligent Tutoring Systems; Reaction Time; Reading Comprehension; Reading Difficulties; Reading Skills; Technology Uses in Education; Canada (Toronto); Georgia (Atlanta)

We developed a version of AutoTutor that helps struggling adult learners improve their comprehension strategies through conversational agents. We hypothesized that the accuracy and time to answer questions during the conversation could be diagnostic of their mastery of different reading comprehensio...