@inproceedings{f915151c131e4ffdb80d9d5c70815f79,
title = "Promoting metacognitive awareness within a Game-Based intelligent tutoring system",
abstract = "Metacognitive awareness has been shown to be a critical skill for academic success. However, students often struggle to regulate this ability during learning tasks. The current study investigates how features designed to promote metacognitive awareness can be built into the game-based intelligent tutoring system (ITS) iSTART-2. College students (n=28) interacted with iSTART-2 for one hour, completing lesson videos and practice activities. If students{\textquoteright} performance fell below a minimum threshold during game-based practice, they received a pop-up that alerted them of their poor performance and were subsequently transitioned to a remedial activity. Results revealed that students{\textquoteright} scores in the system improved after they were transitioned (even when they did not complete the remedial activity). This suggests that the pop-up feature in iSTART-2 may indirectly promote metacognitive awareness, thus leading to increased performance. These results provide insight into the potential benefits of real-time feedback designed to promote metacognitive awareness within a game-based learning environment.",
keywords = "Artificial intelligence, Educational technology design, Game-based learning, Metacognition",
author = "Snow, {Erica L.} and Danielle McNamara and Jacovina, {Matthew E.} and Allen, {Laura K.} and Amy Johnson and Perret, {Cecile A.} and Jianmin Dai and {Tanner Jackson}, G. and Likens, {Aaron D.} and Russell, {Devin G.} and Weston, {Jennifer L.}",
note = "Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2015.; 17th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Education, AIED 2015 ; Conference date: 22-06-2015 Through 26-06-2015",
year = "2015",
doi = "10.1007/978-3-319-19773-9_116",
language = "English (US)",
isbn = "9783319197722",
series = "Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)",
publisher = "Springer Verlag",
pages = "786--789",
editor = "Cristina Conati and Neil Heffernan and Antonija Mitrovic and {Felisa Verdejo}, M.",
booktitle = "Artificial Intelligence in Education - 17th International Conference, AIED 2015, Proceedings",
}