Publication: INTELLIGENT TUTORING SYSTEMS, PEDAGOGICAL AGENT DESIGN, AND HISPANIC ENGLISH LANGUAGE LEARNERS
dc.contributor.advisor | Florence Sullivan | |
dc.contributor.advisor | Beverly Woolf | |
dc.contributor.advisor | Claire Hamilton | |
dc.contributor.author | Allessio, Danielle | |
dc.contributor.department | University of Massachusetts Amherst | |
dc.date | 2024-03-28T16:39:40.000 | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2024-04-26T15:39:19Z | |
dc.date.available | 2024-04-26T15:39:19Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2020-05-08 | |
dc.date.submitted | May | |
dc.date.submitted | 2020 | |
dc.description.abstract | According to the most recent data from the National Center of Education Statistics (NCES) there were approximately 5 million English Language Learners (ELLs) in the U.S. public schools in the Fall of 2016, representing about 10% of the student population (2019). Spanish is the primary language for most ELL students, by a large margin. As a group, ELLs have faced a deeply rooted and persistent math achievement gap (U.S. Department of Education, 2015). Despite research indicating that intelligent tutors and animated pedagogical agents enhance learning, many tutors are not designed with ELLs in mind. As a result, Hispanic ELL students may experience difficulty accessing the relevant content when using a tutor. This mixed-method research investigates how a tutor can reach Hispanic ELL students, based on the social and cultural Identity framework of the Figured Worlds Theory by Holland et al., (1998). Students will socially and culturally engage with their animated pedagogical agents constructing figured worlds of learning and connection that have the power to shape the students’ senses of themselves as learners of math. This study investigates how Hispanic ELL students perceive the utility of and relate to a learning companion (LC) design. Data was examined from 76 middle school students interacting with a math tutor, MathSpring. The findings indicate that ELL students find the MathSpring LC more useful and helpful than do non-ELL students and the ELL students designed LCs that looked more like themselves than did the non-ELL students. The findings also indicate that students formed ‘She/Me Connection’ and ‘She is Like Me’ figured worlds. | |
dc.description.degree | Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) | |
dc.description.department | Education | |
dc.identifier.doi | https://doi.org/10.7275/q31y-pn88 | |
dc.identifier.orcid | https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3276-4393 | |
dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14394/18219 | |
dc.relation.url | https://scholarworks.umass.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=3004&context=dissertations_2&unstamped=1 | |
dc.rights.uri | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ | |
dc.source.status | published | |
dc.subject | Intelligent tutoring system | |
dc.subject | animated pedagogical agent | |
dc.subject | learning companion | |
dc.subject | English language learner | |
dc.subject | cultural representation. | |
dc.subject | Artificial Intelligence and Robotics | |
dc.subject | Educational Technology | |
dc.title | INTELLIGENT TUTORING SYSTEMS, PEDAGOGICAL AGENT DESIGN, AND HISPANIC ENGLISH LANGUAGE LEARNERS | |
dc.type | openaccess | |
dc.type | article | |
dc.type | dissertation | |
digcom.contributor.author | isAuthorOfPublication|email:danielle.allessio@gmail.com|institution:University of Massachusetts Amherst|Allessio, Danielle | |
digcom.identifier | dissertations_2/1945 | |
digcom.identifier.contextkey | 17517856 | |
digcom.identifier.submissionpath | dissertations_2/1945 | |
dspace.entity.type | Publication |
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