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Towards Understanding How To Assess Help-Seeking Behavior Across Cultures, Ryan Baker, Amy Ogan, Erin Walker, Ma.Mercedes Rodrigo, Jose Soriano, Maynor Castro

Ryan S.J.d. Baker

In recent years, there has been increasing interest in automatically assessing help seeking, the process of referring to resources outside of oneself to accomplish a task or solve a problem. Research in the United States has shown that specific help-seeking behaviors led to better learning within intelligent tutoring systems. However, intelligent tutors are used differently by students in different countries, raising the question of whether the same help-seeking behaviors are effective and desirable in different cultural settings. To investigate this question, models connecting help-seeking behaviors with learning were generated from datasets from students in three countries – Costa Rica, the …