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Dever, Daryn A.; Wiedbusch, Megan D.; Cloude, Elizabeth B.; Lester, James; Azevedo, Roger – Discourse Processes: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2022
This study examined 57 learners' emotions (i.e., joy, anger, confusion, frustration) as they engaged with scientific content while learning about microbiology with Crystal Island, a game-based learning environment (GBLE). Measures of learners' prior knowledge, in-game text comprehension, facial expressions of emotion, and posttest reading…
Descriptors: Psychological Patterns, Reading Comprehension, Game Based Learning, Science Education
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Taub, Michelle; Azevedo, Roger – International Journal of Artificial Intelligence in Education, 2019
The goal of this study was to use eye-tracking and log-file data to investigate the impact of prior knowledge on college students' (N = 194, with a subset of n = 30 for eye tracking and sequence mining analyses) fixations on (i.e., looking at) self-regulated learning-related areas of interest (i.e., specific locations on the interface) and on the…
Descriptors: Prior Learning, Eye Movements, Metacognition, Learning Processes
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Trevors, Gregory; Duffy, Melissa; Azevedo, Roger – Educational Technology Research and Development, 2014
Hypermedia learning environments (HLE) unevenly present new challenges and opportunities to learning processes and outcomes depending on learner characteristics and instructional supports. In this experimental study, we examined how one such HLE--MetaTutor, an intelligent, multi-agent tutoring system designed to scaffold cognitive and…
Descriptors: Notetaking, Intelligent Tutoring Systems, Hypermedia, Scaffolding (Teaching Technique)
Rus, Vasile; Lintean, Mihai; Azevedo, Roger – International Working Group on Educational Data Mining, 2009
This paper presents several methods to automatically detecting students' mental models in MetaTutor, an intelligent tutoring system that teaches students self-regulatory processes during learning of complex science topics. In particular, we focus on detecting students' mental models based on student-generated paragraphs during prior knowledge…
Descriptors: Data Analysis, Prior Learning, Cognitive Structures, College Students