Time spent with bottom-out hints correlates positively with learning, consistent with spontaneous self-explanation¶
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q2 i? Shih et al. (2008) found time spent with bottom-out hints correlated positively with learning, interpreted as spontaneous self-explanation of bottom-out hints. → Aleven 2016
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Aleven 2016¶
Aleven, V., Roll, I., McLaren, B. M., & Koedinger, K. R. (2016). Help Helps, But Only So Much: Research on Help Seeking with Intelligent Tutoring Systems. International Journal of Artificial Intelligence in Education. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40593-015-0089-1
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The review reports, citing Shih et al. (2008), a data mining finding that time spent with bottom-out hints correlated positively with learning, which the authors interpreted as students "self-explain[ing] bottom-out hints similar to steps in a worked example".
"Shih et al. (2008)s h o w e d that the time spent with bottom-out hints in an intelligent tutor correlates positively with learning."
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Time spent with bottom-out hints correlates positively with learning, consistent with spontaneous self-explanation |
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Time spent with bottom-out hints correlates positively with learning, consistent with spontaneous self-explanation |
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