2000 character limit reached
Interactive environments for training children's curiosity through the practice of metacognitive skills: a pilot study (2403.08397v1)
Published 13 Mar 2024 in cs.CY
Abstract: Curiosity-driven learning has shown significant positive effects on students' learning experiences and outcomes. But despite this importance, reports show that children lack this skill, especially in formal educational settings. To address this challenge, we propose an 8-session workshop that aims to enhance children's curiosity through training a set of specific metacognitive skills we hypothesize are involved in its process. Our workshop contains animated videos presenting declarative knowledge about curiosity and the said metacognitive skills as well as practice sessions to apply these skills during a reading-comprehension task, using a web platform designed for this study (e.g. expressing uncertainty, formulating questions, etc). We conduct a pilot study with 15 primary school students, aged between 8 and 10. Our first results show a positive impact on children's metacognitive efficiency and their ability to express their curiosity through question-asking behaviors.
- Conversational agents for fostering curiosity-driven learning in children. International Journal of Human-Computer Studies, 167:102887, 2022.
- Pedagogical agents for fostering question-asking skills in children. In Proceedings of the 2020 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, pages 1–13, 2020.
- Tutoring answer explanation fosters learning with understanding. In Artificial Intelligence in Education, pages 199–206. IOS Press, 1999.
- D. E. Berlyne. Curiosity and learning. Motivation and emotion, 2:97–175, 1978.
- Expression of curiosity in social robots: Design, perception, and effects on behaviour. CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI2019), page 1–12, 2019.
- Intrinsic motivation and the process of learning: Beneficial effects of contextualization, personalization, and choice. Journal of Educational Psychology, pages 715–730, 1996.
- I.-A. N. DIAKIDOY and G. Spanoudis. Domain specificity in creativity testing: A comparison of performance on a general divergent-thinking test and a parallel, content-specific test. The Journal of Creative Behavior, 36(1):41–61, 2002.
- S. Engel. Children’s need to know: Curiosity in schools. Harvard educational review, 81(4):625––645, December 2011.
- S. Fleming. Hmeta-d: Hierarchical bayesian estimation of metacognitive efficiency from confidence ratings. neuroscience of consciousness, 2017 (1), 2017.
- A preliminary report on analyses of classroom interaction. Merrill-Palmer Quarterly, 9:183–194, 1963.
- Can children catch curiosity from a social robot? Proceedings of the 2015 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI ’15), 2015:91–98, 2015.
- Historical text comprehension reflective tutorial dialogue system. J. Educ. Technol. Soc., 8:31–41, 2005.
- Cultivating an understanding of curiosity as a seed for creativity. Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences, 35:77–82, 2020.
- M. J. Gruber and C. Ranganath. How curiosity enhances hippocampus-dependent memory: The prediction, appraisal, curiosity, and exploration (pace) framework. Trends in cognitive sciences, 23(12):1014–1025, 2019.
- Development of nasa-tlx (task load index): Results of empirical and theoretical research. In Advances in psychology, volume 52, pages 139–183. Elsevier, 1988.
- Neural mechanisms underlying the induction and relief of perceptual curiosity. Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience, 6, 2012.
- Curiosity in schools. The new science of curiosity, pages 243–265, 2018.
- The wick in the candle of learning: Epistemic curiosity activates reward circuitry and enhances memory. Psychological science, 20(8):963–973, 2009.
- D. R. Krathwohl. A revision of bloom’s taxonomy: An overview. Theory into practice, 41(4):212–218, 2002.
- J. Litman. Curiosity and the pleasures of learning: Wanting and liking new information. Cognition & Emotion, 19(6):793–814, September 2005.
- The measurement of curiosity as a feeling of deprivation. Journal of Personality Assessment, 82, 2004.
- G. Loewenstein. The psychology of curiosity: A review and reinterpretation. Psychological bulletin, 116(1):75, 1994.
- Process account of curiosity and interest: A reward-learning perspective. Educational Psychology Review, 31:875–895, 2019.
- Intrinsic motivation systems for autonomous mental development. IEEE transactions on evolutionary computation, 11(2):265–286, 2007.
- T. Post and J. H. Walma van der Molen. Development and validation of a questionnaire to measure primary school children’s images of and attitudes towards curiosity (the ciac questionnaire). Motivation and Emotion, 42,1:159–178, 2015.
- Construction et validation de l’échelle de motivation en éducation (eme) [construction and validation of the motivation toward education scale]. Canadian Journal of Behavioural Science / Revue canadienne des sciences du comportement, 21:323–349, 1989.