A Cross-Cultural Comparison of Effective Help-Seeking Behavior among Students Using an ITS for Math

• Main Authors: Soriano, Jose Carlo A, Rodrigo, Ma. Mercedes T, Baker, Ryan S, Ogan, Amy, Walker, Erin, Jimenez Castro, Maynor, Genato, Ryan, Fontaine, Samantha, Belmontez, Ricardo
• Format: text
• Published: Archīum Ateneo 2012
• Subjects: Help-seeking; Cross-Cultural; Cognitive Tutors; Scatterplot; Computer Sciences
• Online Access: https://archium.ateneo.edu/discs-faculty-pubs/141; https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-642-30950-2_98
• Institution: Ateneo De Manila University

We use educational data mining to arrive at models of help-seeking behaviors associated with learning from datasets from three countries: Costa Rica, the Philippines, and the USA. The models were then tested on each country’s data to find out how effective help-seeking behavior varies across countries. This study found that models of effective help-seeking are not necessarily transferrable across specific pairs of cultures.