Engagement in learning has increasingly become an important area of focus. This paper addresses the difficulty of accurately measuring engagement through prior methods, and presents a method of measuring engagement concretely through the use of a detector. We build off of prior work in operationalizing and detecting disengaged behaviors which are detrimental to engagement through the use of a real-time detector (Gobert, Baker & Wixon, 2015; Wixon, 2013). This detector is modified and applied to students engaging with the Inquiry-Intelligent Tutoring System, Inq-ITS (Gobert et al, 2013). Lastly, we look at relationships between disengagement and performance during science inquiry learning.

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Creator

• Schuba, Ian James
• Oyola, Adrian

Publisher

• Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Identifier

• E-project-042815-182915

Advisor

• Gobert, Janice

Year

• 2015

Date created

• 2015-04-28

Resource type

• Major Qualifying Project

Major

• Psychological Science

Rights statement

• In Copyright