The survey reports, citing Long and Aleven, that students who used DragonBox enjoyed the experience more, while students who used the Lynnette intelligent tutoring system performed significantly better on the test.¶
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q2 i? The review reports a classroom experiment in which DragonBox users enjoyed the experience more but Lynnette users performed significantly better on the test. → Shuanghong Shen 2021
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Shuanghong Shen 2021¶
Shuanghong Shen, Qi Liu, Zhenya Huang, Yonghe Zheng, Minghao Yin, Minjuan Wang, and Enhong Chen. (2021). A Survey of Knowledge Tracing: Models, Variants, and Applications. https://arxiv.org/abs/2105.15106 doi:10.48550/arxiv.2105.15106
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Narrative review of Long and Aleven's classroom experiment comparing the equation-solving game DragonBox with the intelligent tutoring system Lynnette: DragonBox users "enjoyed the experience more", while Lynnette users performed significantly better on the test. No statistics are printed.
"The results indicated that students who used DragonBox enjoyed the experience more, while students who used Lynnette per- formed significantly better on the test."
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Related Claims¶
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- Intelligent tutoring systems have been shown to improve upon typical classroom instruction — a broader claim this one bears on
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The survey reports, citing Long and Aleven, that students who used DragonBox enjoyed the experience more, while students who used the Lynnette intelligent tutoring system performed significantly better on the test. |
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The survey reports, citing Long and Aleven, that students who used DragonBox enjoyed the experience more, while students who used the Lynnette intelligent tutoring system performed significantly better on the test. |
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