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A Cross-Cultural Comparison of Effective Help-Seeking Behavior among Students Using an ITS for Math

  • Jose Carlo A. Soriano
  • Ma. Mercedes T. Rodrigo
  • Ryan S. J. D. Baker
  • Amy Ogan
  • Erin Walker
  • Maynor Jimenez Castro
  • Ryan Genato
  • Samantha Fontaine
  • Ricardo Belmontez
Conference paper
Part of the Lecture Notes in Computer Science book series (LNCS, volume 7315)

Abstract

We use educational data mining to arrive at models of help-seeking behaviors associated with learning from datasets from three countries: Costa Rica, the Philippines, and the USA. The models were then tested on each country’s data to find out how effective help-seeking behavior varies across countries. This study found that models of effective help-seeking are not necessarily transferrable across specific pairs of cultures.

Keywords

Help-seeking Cross-Cultural Cognitive Tutors Scatterplot 
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Copyright information

© Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2012

Authors and Affiliations

  • Jose Carlo A. Soriano
    • 1
  • Ma. Mercedes T. Rodrigo
    • 1
  • Ryan S. J. D. Baker
    • 2
  • Amy Ogan
    • 3
  • Erin Walker
    • 4
  • Maynor Jimenez Castro
    • 5
  • Ryan Genato
    • 2
  • Samantha Fontaine
    • 2
  • Ricardo Belmontez
    • 2
  1. 1.Ateneo de Manila UniversityQuezon CityPhilippines
  2. 2.Worcester Polytechnic InstituteWorcesterUSA
  3. 3.Carnegie Mellon UniversityPittsburghUSA
  4. 4.Arizona State UniversityTempeUSA
  5. 5.Universidad de Costa RicaSan PedroUSA

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