Title
The Authoring Tool of ADULT: Adaptive Understanding and Learning Text Environment
Abstract
Previous research in the domain of text comprehension in Informatics has demonstrated that readers with little knowledge in this domain benefit from a coherent text, whereas high-knowledge readers benefit from a minimally coherent text. With respect to educational applications, these findings suggest constructing several versions of a text in order to adapt to varying levels of knowledge among readers. In this paper we present the design of the authoring tool of the learning environment ADULT (Adaptive Understanding and Learning from Texts), capable of supporting authors while constructing texts of different coherence in the domain of Informatics, accompanied by questions or tasks designed to access students' comprehension on line. This way students will be activated to use their background knowledge while reading and more students will have the opportunity to achieve better learning results in learning from Informatics texts than reading a single textbook in Informatics targeted at an average reader.
Year
DOI
Venue
2008
10.1007/978-3-540-70987-9_37
AH
Keywords
Field
DocType
authoring tool,learning text environment,domain benefit,informatics text,adaptive understanding,text comprehension,average reader,coherent text,different coherence,minimally coherent text
Informatics,Computer science,Learning environment,Text comprehension,Multimedia,Comprehension
Conference
Volume
ISSN
Citations 
5149
0302-9743
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
3
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Alexandra Gasparinatou131.84
Grammatiki Tsaganou2266.98
Maria Grigoriadou359463.02