The Affective Meta-Tutoring Project: How to motivate students to use effective meta-cognitive strategies

19th International Conference on Computers in Education.
Chiang Mai, Thailand: Asia-Pacific Society for Computers in Education.
November 2011.

Abstract

Meta-tutoring applies the basic policies of interactive tutoring to get students to adopt effective meta-cognitive strategies. Unfortunately, when the meta-tutor is removed, students often revert to using ineffective strategies. This paper is an early report on the progress of the Affective Meta-Tutoring (AMT) project, which will use an affective learning companion to motivate students to more permanently adopt effective meta-cognitive strategies.

Reference

VanLehn, K., Burleson, W., Chavez-Echeagaray, M.E., Christopherson, R., Gonzalez-Sanchez, J., Hastings, J., Hidalgo-Pontet, Y., and Zhang, L. (2011). The Affective Meta-Tutoring Project: How to Motivate Students to Use Effective Meta-Cognitive Strategies. Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Computers in Education (ICCE). Chiang Mai, Thailand: Asia-Pacific Society for Computers in Education. October 2011, pp 128-130.