Representing the AdultEd research team, Dr. John Sabatini, Dr. Art Graesser, Dr. Xiangen Hu, and John Hollander presented their research at the meeting of the International Association for Computerized Adaptive Testing.
This team presented a symposium titled "Developing a system that connects learning and adaptive testing for adults learning to read,” featuring four interconnected research presentations. These talks described a technological and statistical framework for integrating two systems: an intelligent tutoring system and a reading skills assessment battery. The two systems were initially developed separately and now, through a grant from the US DOE Institute for Education Research, are being brought together. To discuss this work and its implications, we will a) describe an adaptive intelligent tutoring system designed to support reading comprehension gains in adults with low literacy, b) describe a multi-stage assessment system used to measure a specific set of component reading skills to differentiate between struggling and proficient readers, c) seek to establish a technological and logistical framework for linking adaptive assessment and instruction and d) report empirical efforts to psychometrically align the above systems and frameworks.
Hollander, J., Sabatini, J., Graesser, A. (2022, September) Connecting assessment and learning in the inner loop. Presented at the 8th Meeting of the International Association for Computerized Adaptive testing.
Hu, X., Sabatini, J., Graesser, J., Hollander, J. (2022, September). Designing innovative tasks and test environments: Opportunities and challenges in connecting assessment and instruction. Presented at the 8th Meeting of the International Association for Computerized Adaptive testing.
Sabatini, J., Weeks, J., O’Reilly, T. (2022, September). A stage-based computer adaptive system combining reading components and scenario based assessments in a longitudinal study. Presented at the 8th Meeting of the International Association for Computerized Adaptive testing.
Graesser, A., Hu, X., Sabatini, J., Hollander, J. (2022, September). AutoTutor for Adult Reading Comprehension: An intelligent tutoring system. Presented at the 8th Meeting of the International Association for Computerized Adaptive testing.