TY - GEN
T1 - A comparison of gains between educational games and a traditional ITS
AU - Jackson, G. Tanner
AU - Boonthum-Denecke, Chutima
AU - McNamara, Danielle
PY - 2012
Y1 - 2012
N2 - Intelligent Tutoring Systems (ITSs) have begun to incorporate game-based components in an attempt to balance the learning benefits of ITSs with the motivational benefits of games. iSTART-ME (Motivationally Enhanced) is a new game-based learning environment that was developed on top of an existing ITS (iSTART). In a multi-session labbased efficacy study with 125 high school students, those students with a low prior reading ability who were trained by a game-based tutoring system (iSTART-ME) or a traditional intelligent tutoring system (iSTART-Regular) performed significantly better on posttest measures than students assigned to a time-delayed control condition. Additionally, the low reading ability students who interacted with the game-based system had a tendency to gain more than students in the traditional ITS system.
AB - Intelligent Tutoring Systems (ITSs) have begun to incorporate game-based components in an attempt to balance the learning benefits of ITSs with the motivational benefits of games. iSTART-ME (Motivationally Enhanced) is a new game-based learning environment that was developed on top of an existing ITS (iSTART). In a multi-session labbased efficacy study with 125 high school students, those students with a low prior reading ability who were trained by a game-based tutoring system (iSTART-ME) or a traditional intelligent tutoring system (iSTART-Regular) performed significantly better on posttest measures than students assigned to a time-delayed control condition. Additionally, the low reading ability students who interacted with the game-based system had a tendency to gain more than students in the traditional ITS system.
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M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84864992506
SN - 9781577355588
T3 - Proceedings of the 25th International Florida Artificial Intelligence Research Society Conference, FLAIRS-25
SP - 444
EP - 449
BT - Proceedings of the 25th International Florida Artificial Intelligence Research Society Conference, FLAIRS-25
T2 - 25th International Florida Artificial Intelligence Research Society Conference, FLAIRS-25
Y2 - 23 May 2012 through 25 May 2012
ER -