Incorporating student choice in E-learning

Avi Segal; Naor Guetta; Amir Taboul; Guy Shani; Ya’akov Kobi Gal

Incorporating student choice in E-learning

Avi Segal, Naor Guetta, Amir Taboul, Guy Shani, Ya’akov Kobi Gal

Department of Software and Information Systems Engineering

Ben-Gurion University of the Negev

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Abstract

We investigate the possibility of increasing students’ performance and motivation in e-learning through choice: allowing students to choose educational material and questions while learning online. We ran a user study in which 5th grade students were repeatedly able to choose between a pair of math questions that were chosen from ascending skill levels based on performance. Our results show that students answered more difficult questions and obtained better grades when they were allowed to choose the questions than a baseline approach which did not allow choice. Also, we found a strong correlation between the skill levels that were obtained by the students in the choice based system and their class grades. Finally, most students preferred the choice system over a non-choice system.

Original language	American English
Title of host publication	Intelligent Tutoring Systems - 13th International Conference, ITS 2016, Proceedings
Editors	Alessandro Micarelli, John Stamper, Kitty Panourgia
Publisher	Springer Verlag
Pages	443-446
Number of pages	4
ISBN (Print)	9783319395821
State	Published - 1 Jan 2016
Event	13th International Conference on Intelligent Tutoring Systems, ITS 2016 - Zagreb, Croatia Duration: 7 Jun 2016 → 10 Jun 2016

Publication series

Name	Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume	9684

Conference

Conference	13th International Conference on Intelligent Tutoring Systems, ITS 2016
Country/Territory	Croatia
City	Zagreb
Period	7/06/16 → 10/06/16

UN SDGs

This output contributes to the following UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

SDG 4 Quality Education

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

Theoretical Computer Science
General Computer Science

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Segal, A., Guetta, N., Taboul, A., Shani, G., & Gal, Y. K. (2016). Incorporating student choice in E-learning. In A. Micarelli, J. Stamper, & K. Panourgia (Eds.), Intelligent Tutoring Systems - 13th International Conference, ITS 2016, Proceedings (pp. 443-446). (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics); Vol. 9684). Springer Verlag.

Segal, Avi ; Guetta, Naor ; Taboul, Amir et al. / Incorporating student choice in E-learning. Intelligent Tutoring Systems - 13th International Conference, ITS 2016, Proceedings. editor / Alessandro Micarelli ; John Stamper ; Kitty Panourgia. Springer Verlag, 2016. pp. 443-446 (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)).

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Segal, A, Guetta, N, Taboul, A, Shani, G & Gal, YK 2016, Incorporating student choice in E-learning. in A Micarelli, J Stamper & K Panourgia (eds), Intelligent Tutoring Systems - 13th International Conference, ITS 2016, Proceedings. Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics), vol. 9684, Springer Verlag, pp. 443-446, 13th International Conference on Intelligent Tutoring Systems, ITS 2016, Zagreb, Croatia, 7/06/16.

Incorporating student choice in E-learning. / Segal, Avi; Guetta, Naor; Taboul, Amir et al.
Intelligent Tutoring Systems - 13th International Conference, ITS 2016, Proceedings. ed. / Alessandro Micarelli; John Stamper; Kitty Panourgia. Springer Verlag, 2016. p. 443-446 (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics); Vol. 9684).

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Segal A, Guetta N, Taboul A, Shani G , Gal YK. Incorporating student choice in E-learning. In Micarelli A, Stamper J, Panourgia K, editors, Intelligent Tutoring Systems - 13th International Conference, ITS 2016, Proceedings. Springer Verlag. 2016. p. 443-446. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)).

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