Add to ORKGOne out of six adults in the United States possesses low literacy skills. Many advocates believe that technology can pave the way for these adults to gain the skills that they desire. This article describes an adaptive intelligent tutoring system called AutoTutor that is designed to teach adults comprehension strategies across different levels of discourse processing. AutoTutor was designed with a simple, easy to use interface that caters to the special technological needs of adult learners. Though the interface may be simple, the functionality is not. AutoTutor leverages empirically based learning principles from cognitive psychology to scaffold the acquisition of reading comprehension skills. In particular, it embeds six major learning af...
non-peer-reviewedThe traditional definition of literacy was the ability to read and write, however, ...
Practitioners teaching new Internet users often report that adult learners are disappointed by their...
Lack of reading ability could easily be identified as a crisis in education effecting students all o...
This article introduces three distinctive features of a conversation-based intelligent tutoring syst...
Adult learners with low literacy skills compose a highly heterogeneous population in terms of demogr...
A common goal of Intelligent Tutoring Systems (ITS) is to provide learning environments that adapt t...
Reading comprehension is often assessed by having students read passages and administering a test th...
In this paper, we investigate whether a version of AutoTutor that teaches comprehension strategies c...
A common goal of Intelligent Tutoring Systems (ITS) is to provide learning environments that adapt t...
Facing the demands of the pandemic and distance learning, English learners require educational techn...
For a very large number of adults, tasks such as reading, understanding, and using everyday items ar...
Illiteracy is often associated with people in developing countries. However, an estimated 50\ua0% of...
According to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), the mean proficiency ...
Basic literacy skills are fundamental building blocks of education, yet for a very large number of a...
Illiteracy is often associated with people in developing countries. However, an estimated 50 % of ad...
non-peer-reviewedThe traditional definition of literacy was the ability to read and write, however, ...
Practitioners teaching new Internet users often report that adult learners are disappointed by their...
Lack of reading ability could easily be identified as a crisis in education effecting students all o...
This article introduces three distinctive features of a conversation-based intelligent tutoring syst...
Adult learners with low literacy skills compose a highly heterogeneous population in terms of demogr...
A common goal of Intelligent Tutoring Systems (ITS) is to provide learning environments that adapt t...
Reading comprehension is often assessed by having students read passages and administering a test th...
In this paper, we investigate whether a version of AutoTutor that teaches comprehension strategies c...
A common goal of Intelligent Tutoring Systems (ITS) is to provide learning environments that adapt t...
Facing the demands of the pandemic and distance learning, English learners require educational techn...
For a very large number of adults, tasks such as reading, understanding, and using everyday items ar...
Illiteracy is often associated with people in developing countries. However, an estimated 50\ua0% of...
According to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), the mean proficiency ...
Basic literacy skills are fundamental building blocks of education, yet for a very large number of a...
Illiteracy is often associated with people in developing countries. However, an estimated 50 % of ad...
non-peer-reviewedThe traditional definition of literacy was the ability to read and write, however, ...
Practitioners teaching new Internet users often report that adult learners are disappointed by their...
Lack of reading ability could easily be identified as a crisis in education effecting students all o...