The Sounds of Silence: Towards Automated Evaluation of Student Learning in a Reading Tutor That Listens

Abstract

We propose a paradigm for ecologically valid, authentic, unobtrusive, automatic, data-rich, fast, robust, and sensitive evaluation of computer-assisted student performance. We instantiate this paradigm in the context of a Reading Tutor that listens to children read aloud, and helps them. We introduce interword latency as a simple prosodic measure of assisted reading performance. Finally, to validate the measure and analyze performance improvement, we report initial experimental results from the first extended in-school deployment of the Reading Tutor.

Cite

Text

Mostow and Aist. "The Sounds of Silence: Towards Automated Evaluation of Student Learning in a Reading Tutor That Listens." AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 1997.

Markdown

[Mostow and Aist. "The Sounds of Silence: Towards Automated Evaluation of Student Learning in a Reading Tutor That Listens." AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 1997.](https://mlanthology.org/aaai/1997/mostow1997aaai-sounds/)

BibTeX

@inproceedings{mostow1997aaai-sounds,
  title     = {{The Sounds of Silence: Towards Automated Evaluation of Student Learning in a Reading Tutor That Listens}},
  author    = {Mostow, Jack and Aist, Gregory},
  booktitle = {AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence},
  year      = {1997},
  pages     = {355-361},
  url       = {https://mlanthology.org/aaai/1997/mostow1997aaai-sounds/}
}