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- Title
Designing automated adaptive support to improve student helping behaviors in a peer tutoring activity.
- Authors
Walker, Erin; Rummel, Nikol; Koedinger, Kenneth
- Abstract
daptive collaborative learning support systems analyze student collaboration as it occurs and provide targeted assistance to the collaborators. Too little is known about how to design adaptive support to have a positive effect on interaction and learning. We investigated this problem in a reciprocal peer tutoring scenario, where two students take turns tutoring each other, so that both may benefit from giving help. We used a social design process to generate three principles for adaptive collaboration assistance. Following these principles, we designed adaptive assistance for improving peer tutor help-giving, and deployed it in a classroom, comparing it to traditional fixed support. We found that the assistance improved the conceptual content of help and the use of interface features. We qualitatively examined how each design principle contributed to the effect, finding that peer tutors responded best to assistance that made them feel accountable for help they gave.
- Subjects
PSYCHOLOGY of students; PEER teaching; ADAPTABILITY (Personality); COLLABORATIVE learning; PEER training programs (Education)
- Publication
International Journal of Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning, 2011, Vol 6, Issue 2, p279
- ISSN
1556-1607
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s11412-011-9111-2