The emote-aloud procedure is limited by non-reporting and floor effects: 2 of 7 participants did not verbalise affective states and four states were removed from analysis¶
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q2 i? Two of seven participants expressed too few affective states verbally, and anger, disgust, contempt, and curiosity were dropped due to floor effects, leaving reliable data only for boredom, confusion, and frustration. → Scotty D. Craig 2008
Evidence¶
Scotty D. Craig 2008¶
Scotty D. Craig, Sidney D'Mello, Amy Witherspoon, and Art Graesser. (2008). Emote aloud during learning with AutoTutor: Applying the Facial Action Coding System to cognitive/affective states during learning. Cognition and Emotion, 22(5), 777-788. https://doi.org/10.1080/02699930701516759
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Data-cleaning report in the Conclusions of the emote-aloud study. The article states "2 of 7 participants did not express affective states verbally" and names the four states removed for floor effects; three of the four were extreme negative states.
"We found that 2 of 7 participants did not express affective states verbally. Four affective states were removed from the analysis due to floor effects: anger, disgust, contempt, and curiosity."
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Related Claims¶
- Boredom during learning shows a significant association with facial action unit 43 (eye closure), but no association rules between action units
- Confusion during learning is associated with facial action units 4, 7, and 12, with tightened lids tending to trigger a lowered brow
- Frustration during learning is associated with facial action units 1, 2, and 14, with a mutual trigger rule between the inner and outer brow raises
- Negative affective experience items were dropped due to floor effects and poor discrimination
- Emote-aloud protocols show learner emotions correlate systematically with AutoTutor dialogue features — related
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The emote-aloud procedure is limited by non-reporting and floor effects: 2 of 7 participants did not verbalise affective states and four states were removed from analysis |
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The emote-aloud procedure is limited by non-reporting and floor effects: 2 of 7 participants did not verbalise affective states and four states were removed from analysis |
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