Faculty Advisor
Gobert, Janice
Abstract
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.
Publisher
Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Accepted
April 2015
Major
Psychological Science
Project Type
Major Qualifying Project
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Advisor Department
Social Science and Policy Studies