Title page for E-project-030507-150729

Project Type IQP

Submission date 2007-03-05

Authors
David T Curran, ME
Loren Gjata, lorengj@WPI.EDU, CS
David P Lamoureux, ME

URN E-project-030507-150729

Division Education in a Technological Society

Center Worcester, MA

Title Methods of Tutoring with the Assistment Program

Advisor
Heffernan, Neil, CS

Availability unrestricted

Abstract
This Interactive Qualifying Project introduces and discusses the Assistment program, comparing it to similar programs and analyzing its effectiveness through experimentation. Content was developed for the Assistment program and incorporated into an experiment. The purpose of the experiment is to produce data that can be used to determine whether scaffolding questions or hints, the two tutoring methods used by the Assistment program, are more effective teaching mechanisms. The resulting data suggests scaffolding questions are more effective than hints.

Files
Final.pdf

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Project Type	IQP
Submission date	2007-03-05
Authors	David T Curran, ME Loren Gjata, lorengj@WPI.EDU, CS David P Lamoureux, ME
URN	E-project-030507-150729
Division	Education in a Technological Society
Center	Worcester, MA
Title	Methods of Tutoring with the Assistment Program
Advisor	Heffernan, Neil, CS
Availability	unrestricted
Abstract This Interactive Qualifying Project introduces and discusses the Assistment program, comparing it to similar programs and analyzing its effectiveness through experimentation. Content was developed for the Assistment program and incorporated into an experiment. The purpose of the experiment is to produce data that can be used to determine whether scaffolding questions or hints, the two tutoring methods used by the Assistment program, are more effective teaching mechanisms. The resulting data suggests scaffolding questions are more effective than hints.
Files	Final.pdf