When the Rubber Meets the Road: Lessons from the In-School Adventures of an Automated Reading Tutor that Listens - Robotics Institute Carnegie Mellon University

When the Rubber Meets the Road: Lessons from the In-School Adventures of an Automated Reading Tutor that Listens

Jack Mostow and Joseph E. Beck
Book Section/Chapter, Scale-Up in Education, Vol. 2, pp. 183 - 200, December, 2006

Abstract

Project LISTEN's Reading Tutor (www.cs.cmu.edu/~listen) uses automatic speech recognition to listen to children read aloud, and helps them learn to read. Its experimental deployment in schools has expanded from a single computer used by eight third graders in one school in 1996 to two hundred computers used by children in grades 1-3 in nine schools in 2003. This project illustrates how technology can not just scale up an intervention, but instrument its implementation. For example, analysis of 2002-2003 usage showed that session frequency and duration averaged significantly higher in lab settings than in classrooms.

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BibTeX

@incollection{Mostow-2006-17028,
author = {Jack Mostow and Joseph E. Beck},
title = {When the Rubber Meets the Road: Lessons from the In-School Adventures of an Automated Reading Tutor that Listens},
booktitle = {Scale-Up in Education},
publisher = {Rowman & Littlefield Publishers},
address = {Lanham, MD},
editor = {B. Schneider & S.-K. McDonald},
year = {2006},
month = {December},
pages = {183 - 200},
volume = {2},
}