Evaluation of Automatically Generated Hint Feedback.
Michael John Eagle, Tiffany M. Barnes · 2013
This work explores the effects of using automatically gener-ated hints in problem solving tutor environments. Gener-ating hints automatically removes a large amount of devel-opment time for new tutors, and it also useful for already existing computer-aided instruction systems that lack intel-ligent feedback. We focus on a series of problems, after which, previous analysis showed the control group is to be 3.5 times more likely to cease logging onto an online tu-tor when compared to the group who were given hints. We found a consistent trend in which students without hints spent more time on problems when compared to students that were provided hints.