Intelligent Tutoring Games for Interest-based Learning

计算机化的教育软件有望成为提供个性化教学的补充手段。第一阶段小型企业创新研究(SBIR)研究为继续第二阶段研究奠定了技术基础，证明了开发一种工作游戏是可能的，该游戏需要将植根于认知心理学的精心设计的智能辅导系统与游戏形式相结合。第二阶段研究的目标集中在(1)填写和实验测试第一阶段智能辅导游戏(ITG)框架，以便就该项目框架所基于的教学概念的合理性提供反馈；以及(2)开发和实验测试中学概率与统计/科学推理的全面ITG，以评估以ITG形式实施该项目的教学方法的合理性。该项目旨在为使用该软件的学生提供在保持学生兴趣和热情的游戏环境中进行个性化教学的好处。虽然存在着糟糕的导师和糟糕的导师，也就是说，他们没有乐趣，但拟议的项目将通过开发一个基于研究的框架来填补这一空白，以开发从教学和享受角度都很出色的导师。

Computerized educational software holds promise as a supplemental means of providing individualized instruction. The Phase I Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) study established the technical basis for proceeding with the Phase II research by demonstrating that it is possible to develop a working game that entails the combination of a well-designed intelligent tutoring system rooted in cognitive psychology with a game format. The objectives of the Phase II research focus on (1) filling in and experimentally testing the Phase I Intelligent Tutoring Game (ITG) framework in order to provide feedback as to the soundness of the teaching concepts upon which the framework of the project is based; and (2) developing and experimentally testing a full-scale ITG for middle school probability and statistics/scientific reasoning in order to assess the soundness of implementing the instructional approach of the project in an ITG format. The project aims to provide the students using the software with the benefits of individualized instruction in a game environment that maintains student interest and enthusiasm. While there exist games that are poor tutors and tutors that are poor games, i.e., they are no fun, the proposed project would fill this gap by developing a research-based framework to develop tutors that excel both from instructional and enjoyment perspectives.