University of Massachusetts, Amherst

The Adult Skills Assessment Project (ASAP) research team will create a digital, online repository of assessment tasks in literacy, numeracy, and the intersection of these two domains to provide effective, comprehensive measures of academic constructs important to the success of all adult learners. Current assessments in adult education are not helpful for instructional needs such as placement, diagnosis, or formative assessment, nor are they valid and reliable measures for research in adult ...

Computer tutors have been successful in improving learning by employing "intelligent" techniques to guide online, tailored interaction appropriate for a particular user. Although such tutors are responsive to the user's on-going performance, they do not attend to the user's affective state (e.g., levels of frustration, self-confidence). The purpose of this project is to extend the capabilities of two web-based mathematics tutors to assess online the user's affect and respond in ways to minim...