TY - GEN
T1 - iSTART-E
T2 - 19th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Education, AIED 2018
AU - McCarthy, Kathryn S.
AU - Soto, Christian
AU - Malbrán, Cecilia
AU - Fonseca, Liliana
AU - Simian, Marian
AU - McNamara, Danielle
N1 - Funding Information:
Acknowledgements. This research was supported by the Institute of Education Sciences (R305A130124), Office of Naval Research (N00014140343 and N000141712300), and FON-DEF, CONICYT (IT15I10036 and IT16I10044). Opinions are those of the authors and do not represent views of the IES, ONR, or CONICYT.
Publisher Copyright:
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PY - 2018
Y1 - 2018
N2 - Interactive Strategy Training for Active Reading and Thinking en Español, or iSTART-E, is a new intelligent tutoring system (ITS) that provides reading comprehension strategy training for Spanish speakers. This paper reports on studies evaluating the efficacy of iSTART-E in real-world classrooms in two different Spanish-speaking countries. In Study 1, Chilean high school students (n = 22) who practiced with iSTART-E showed significant gains on a standardized comprehension assessment (LECTUM) from pretest to posttest. In Study 2 (n = 85), Argentinian middle school students who practiced with iSTART-E showed greater gains on the ECOMPLEC.Sec comprehension test compared to those in control classrooms. Together these results suggest that iSTART-E is an effective means of enhancing Spanish speakers’ reading comprehension, with demonstrated transfer of training to standardized reading tests.
AB - Interactive Strategy Training for Active Reading and Thinking en Español, or iSTART-E, is a new intelligent tutoring system (ITS) that provides reading comprehension strategy training for Spanish speakers. This paper reports on studies evaluating the efficacy of iSTART-E in real-world classrooms in two different Spanish-speaking countries. In Study 1, Chilean high school students (n = 22) who practiced with iSTART-E showed significant gains on a standardized comprehension assessment (LECTUM) from pretest to posttest. In Study 2 (n = 85), Argentinian middle school students who practiced with iSTART-E showed greater gains on the ECOMPLEC.Sec comprehension test compared to those in control classrooms. Together these results suggest that iSTART-E is an effective means of enhancing Spanish speakers’ reading comprehension, with demonstrated transfer of training to standardized reading tests.
KW - Intelligent tutoring
KW - Reading comprehension
KW - Spanish
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U2 - 10.1007/978-3-319-93846-2_39
DO - 10.1007/978-3-319-93846-2_39
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85049362831
SN - 9783319938455
T3 - Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
SP - 215
EP - 219
BT - Artificial Intelligence in Education - 19th International Conference, AIED 2018, Proceedings
A2 - Luckin, Rose
A2 - Porayska-Pomsta, Kaska
A2 - du Boulay, Benedict
A2 - Mavrikis, Manolis
A2 - Penstein Rosé, Carolyn
A2 - McLaren, Bruce
A2 - Martinez-Maldonado, Roberto
A2 - Hoppe, H. Ulrich
PB - Springer Verlag
Y2 - 27 June 2018 through 30 June 2018
ER -