What Makes Problem-Solving Practice Effective? Comparing Paper and AI Tutoring

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العنوان: What Makes Problem-Solving Practice Effective? Comparing Paper and AI Tutoring
اللغة: English
المؤلفون: Borchers, Conrad (ORCID 0000-0003-3437-8979), Carvalho, Paulo F. (ORCID 0000-0002-0449-3733), Xia, Meng (ORCID 0000-0002-2676-9032), Liu, Pinyang (ORCID 0000-0002-3842-1017), Koedinger, Kenneth R. (ORCID 0000-0002-5850-4768), Aleven, Vincent (ORCID 0000-0002-1581-6657)
المصدر: Grantee Submission. 2023.
تمت مراجعته من قبل الزملاء: Y
Page Count: 17
تاريخ النشر: 2023
Sponsoring Agency: Institute of Education Sciences (ED)
Contract Number: R305A220386
نوع الوثيقة: Speeches/Meeting Papers
Reports - Research
Education Level: Junior High Schools
Middle Schools
Secondary Education
الواصفات: Problem Solving, Intelligent Tutoring Systems, Mathematics Education, Learning Processes, Middle School Students, Graphs, Mathematics Achievement, Error Patterns, Accuracy, Achievement Gains, Instructional Effectiveness
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-42682-7_4
مستخلص: In numerous studies, intelligent tutoring systems (ITSs) have proven effective in helping students learn mathematics. Prior work posits that their effectiveness derives from efficiently providing eventually-correct practice opportunities. Yet, there is little empirical evidence on how learning processes with ITSs compare to other forms of instruction. The current study compares problem-solving with an ITS versus solving the same problems on paper. We analyze the learning process and pre-post gain data from N = 97 middle school students practicing linear graphs in three curricular units. We find that (i) working with the ITS, students had more than twice the number of eventually-correct practice opportunities than when working on paper and (ii) omission errors on paper were associated with lower learning gains. Yet, contrary to our hypothesis, tutor practice did not yield greater learning gains, with tutor and paper comparing differently across curricular units. These findings align with tutoring allowing students to grapple with challenging steps through tutor assistance but not with eventually-correct opportunities driving learning gains. Gaming-the-system, lack of transfer to an unfamiliar test format, potentially ineffective tutor design, and learning affordances of paper can help explain this gap. This study provides first-of-its-kind quantitative evidence that ITSs yield more learning "opportunities" than equivalent paper-and-pencil practice and reveals that the relation between opportunities and learning gains emerges only when the instruction is effective.
Abstractor: As Provided
IES Funded: Yes
Entry Date: 2023
الوصول الحر: https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-031-42682-7_4Test
رقم الانضمام: ED631224
قاعدة البيانات: ERIC