Abstract / Excerpt:
Mobile devices are presently the most commonly used devices, especially by the youth. With its convenience and portability, several applications are already developed, and more are still in the development stage, to fit to every personal need of its users. With this, a Mobile Intelligent Tutoring System (MITS) has been designed, developed, and deployed to teach English Grammar to grade school and junior high school students. MITS was designed using the “rewards and punishment” pedagogical approach in teaching and learning. Motivational prompts like “Good Job!”, “Congratulations!” and rewards like certificates are used to give positive feedback for correct actions. Repetition is used for “punishment” or as an intervention when a student commits mistakes and/or errors.
Fourteen (14) grade 7, 8 and 9 students from a private school in the City participated (with adult consent, i.e. parents and/or teacher) in the deployment experiment conducted by the researchers. Among the major findings of the experiment are: MITS was to result to a positive learning gain from the student users. Learning gain was computed from pretest and posttest scores also taken in the MITS learning environment. Usability tests were also performed using a 5point Likert scale (1Very easy/Very Pleasing and 5 – Very difficult/Not pleasing). For ease of use and user friendliness, MITS was given a mean rating of 1.79. In terms of content (and its level of difficulty), MITS got a mean rating of 1.93. For the graphic design and aesthetics, MITS got a mean rating of 2.07. The usability tests revealed results with tendencies for good performance and design of MITS, coupled with the resulting learning gain (36%) from the students participating in the experiment, this research project can be considered as a success.
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| Source Institution | Ateneo de Davao University |
| Unit | Computer Studies |
| Authors | Banawan, Marianne P, Jagonase, Kim Brent D |
| Page Count | 10 |
| Place of Publication | Davao City |
| Original Publication Date | March 1, 2016 |
| Tags | Android Studio, Bloom’s Taxonomy, Communication Module, Domain Module, Expert Module, HumanComputer Interaction, Intelligent Tutoring System (ITS), Mobile Intelligent Tutoring System (MITS), Native Application, Poor Man’s Eye Tracker (PMET), Student Module, WebBased App, modeltracing tutors |
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