Web-Based Intelligent Multimedia Tutoring for High Stakes Achievement Tests

Abstract. We describe Wayang Outpost, a web-based ITS for the Math section of the Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT). It has several distinctive features: help with multimedia animations and sound, problems embedded in narrative and fantasy contexts, alternative teaching strategies for students of different mental rotation abilities and memory retrieval speeds. Our work on adding intelligence for adaptivity is described. Evaluations prove that students learn with the tutor, but learning depends on the interaction of teaching strategies andcognitive abilities. A newadaptive tutor is being built based on evaluation results; surveys results andstudents’ log files analyses.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2004
• Where: ITS
• Authors: Ivon Arroyo, Carole R. Beal, Tom Murray, Rena Walles, Beverly Park Woolf
• Keywords: Artificial Intelligence, ITS 2004, Mental Rotation Abilities, Scholastic Aptitude Test, Teaching Strategies