TY - JOUR
T1 - A solution-based intelligent tutoring system integrated with an online game-based formative assessment
T2 - development and evaluation
AU - Hooshyar, Danial
AU - Ahmad, Rodina Binti
AU - Yousefi, Moslem
AU - Fathi, Moein
AU - Abdollahi, Abbas
AU - Horng, Shi Jinn
AU - Lim, Heuiseok
N1 - Funding Information:
This research has been financially funded by the University of Malaya with project number of RG327-15AFR.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2016, Association for Educational Communications and Technology.
PY - 2016/8/1
Y1 - 2016/8/1
N2 - Nowadays, intelligent tutoring systems are considered an effective research tool for learning systems and problem-solving skill improvement. Nonetheless, such individualized systems may cause students to lose learning motivation when interaction and timely guidance are lacking. In order to address this problem, a solution-based intelligent tutoring system (SITS) is integrated with an online game-based formative assessment game called tic-tac-toe quiz for single-player (TRIS-Q-SP) for learning computer programming. This assessment game combines tic-tac-toe with online assessment, and the rules of tic-tac-toe are revised to stimulate students to use online formative assessment actively. Finally, an experimental study is devised to assess the success of SITS, and significant achievements are observed for the experimental group, besides enjoyment and positive opinions toward the TRIS-Q-SP. Therefore, the practical use of SITS is supported, as the results indicate considerable advantages for the experimental group over the control group. The findings also reveal that immediate elaborated feedback upon answering each question in TRIS-Q-SP is part of an optimal design.
AB - Nowadays, intelligent tutoring systems are considered an effective research tool for learning systems and problem-solving skill improvement. Nonetheless, such individualized systems may cause students to lose learning motivation when interaction and timely guidance are lacking. In order to address this problem, a solution-based intelligent tutoring system (SITS) is integrated with an online game-based formative assessment game called tic-tac-toe quiz for single-player (TRIS-Q-SP) for learning computer programming. This assessment game combines tic-tac-toe with online assessment, and the rules of tic-tac-toe are revised to stimulate students to use online formative assessment actively. Finally, an experimental study is devised to assess the success of SITS, and significant achievements are observed for the experimental group, besides enjoyment and positive opinions toward the TRIS-Q-SP. Therefore, the practical use of SITS is supported, as the results indicate considerable advantages for the experimental group over the control group. The findings also reveal that immediate elaborated feedback upon answering each question in TRIS-Q-SP is part of an optimal design.
KW - Computer programming
KW - Formative assessment
KW - Intelligent tutoring system
KW - Solution-based environments
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U2 - 10.1007/s11423-016-9433-x
DO - 10.1007/s11423-016-9433-x
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84957951176
VL - 64
SP - 787
EP - 808
JO - Educational Technology Research and Development
JF - Educational Technology Research and Development
SN - 1042-1629
IS - 4
ER -