Ateneo Laboratory for the Learning Sciences

On March 4-8, 2019, Michelle Banawan attended the 9th International Learning Analytics and Knowledge (LAK) Conference in Tempe, Arizona. LAK gathers esteemed researchers and experts in the field of Learning Analytics like Dragan Gasevic, Ryan Baker, Ken Koedinger, Ulrich Hoppe and a lot more.  This year’s LAK was hosted by the Arizona State University.  Michelle presented her paper entitled “An Investigation of Academic Performance, Mindless Reading and its Indicators” in one of the pre-conference workshops, i.e. Predicting Performance Based on the Analysis of Reading Behavior: A Data Challenge. The PDF version of the paper is published in LAK’s companion proceedings and in the workshop website : https://sites.google.com/view/lak19datachallenge

She also met and discussed grouping experiments, deployment of affective studies and other publication outputs for the JOLLY project for both Ibigkas ang Learning Likha with Dr. Jaclyn Ocumpaugh of the University of Pennsylvania. She would like to acknowledge the Commission on Higher Education, the JOLLY research grant and the Ateneo de Davao University for the funding support.

Advanced Learning Theories, Technologies, Applications, and Impacts Public Lecture and Workshop
Register at: http://bit.ly/ALLSSummerSchool2019

This year at the IEEE International Conference on Teaching, Assessment, and Learning for Engineering (TALE), Cesar Tecson presented his paper which evaluated the intelligent tutoring system, Intelligent Learning System for Automata (ILSA), on users’
achievement goal orientations using analyses based on user experience and feature significance.

TALE is the IEEE Education Society’s flagship Asia-Pacific (IEEE Region 10) conference, catering to researchers and practitioners with an interest in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) education – with a particular emphasis on electrical and electronic engineering, telecommunications, computer engineering, computer science and allied disciplines – as well as those interested in the innovative use of digital technologies for learning, teaching and assessment in any discipline. The target audience of the conference is diverse and includes those working in the higher education, vocational education and training (VET), K-12, corporate, government, and healthcare sectors.The conference was hosted by the University of Wollongong Australia and Charles Sturt University from December 4-7, 2018.

On 19 December 2018, ALLS hosted a team from St. Paul’s College Pasig, including Ms. Paola Grajo, and five Grade 12 students, Jenny Lim, Theresa Magsajo, Bea Mallari,Bianca Mallari, and Althea Manansala. They consulted with Dr. Rodrigo about their senior thesis project that aims to develop a  hypermedia learning system that will be used for teaching ratio and proportions to Grade 6 students.

We are pleased to announce that the paper “Portraits of Underprivileged Filipino Second Language Learners: Towards the Development of Computer-based Educational Game” has been accepted as a short paper.

Congratulations to Rex Bringula, Jaclyn Ocumpaugh, and the JOLLY team!