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John Hollander; John Sabatini; Art Graesser; Daphne Greenberg; Tenaha O'Reilly; Jan Frijters – Grantee Submission, 2023
Adult literacy learners are characterized by their diversity, both in terms of educational histories and cognitive skill sets. Accounting for the specific strengths and weaknesses of each learner is vital to the assessment of literacy gains and optimization of educational systems. We examined pre- and post-difference scores on a component reading…
Descriptors: Adult Literacy, Adult Education, Adult Students, Student Characteristics
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John Hollander; John Sabatini; Art Graesser; Daphne Greenberg; Tenaha O'Reilly; Jan Frijters – Discourse Processes: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2023
Adult literacy learners are characterized by their diversity, both in terms of educational histories and cognitive skill sets. Accounting for the specific strengths and weaknesses of each learner is vital to the assessment of literacy gains and optimization of educational systems. We examined pre- and post-difference scores on a component reading…
Descriptors: Adult Literacy, Adult Education, Adult Students, Student Characteristics
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Ward, W.; Cole, R.; Bolanos, D.; Buchenroth-Martin, C.; Svirsky, E.; Van Vuuren, S.; Weston, T.; Zheng, J.; Becker, L. – Grantee Submission, 2011
This paper describes My Science Tutor (MyST), an intelligent tutoring system designed to improve science learning by students in 3rd, 4th and 5th grades (7 to 11 years old) through conversational dialogs with a virtual science tutor. In our study, individual students engage in spoken dialogs with the virtual tutor Marni during 15 to 20 minute…
Descriptors: Elementary School Science, Elementary School Students, Science Education, Intelligent Tutoring Systems