{"title":"Toward Modeling the Learner's Personality Using Educational Games","authors":"Fathi Essalmi, A. Tlili, Leila Jemni Ben Ayed, M. Jemni","doi":"10.4018/IJDET.2017100102","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Learner modeling is a crucial step in the learning personalization process. It allows taking into considerationthelearner’sprofiletomakethelearningprocessmoreefficient.Moststudiesrefer toanexplicitmethod,namelyquestionnaire,tomodellearners.Questionnairesaretimeconsuming andmaynotbemotivatingforlearners.Thus,thispaperpresentsanewapproachforModelingthe learner’sPersonality,introvert/extrovert,usingEducationalGames(MoPEG).Theproposedapproach includesthreephases,namelydesignoftheeducationalgame,collectionoftracesandpersonality prediction.ToevaluatetheefficiencyofMoPEG,anexperimentwasconductedwiththirtylearners where their personalitymodeling results usingMoPEGare compared to theBigFive Inventory (BFI)questionnaire.TheobtainedresultsshowedthattheaccuracylevelofMoPEGissignificant withan80%ofsimilarity.Besides,basedontheKappamethod,usedbypsychologiststomeasure thesimilarityoftwoinstruments.TheobtainedresultshighlightedanagreementdegreeofMoPEG withthelevel“good”. KEywoRDS Classification, Educational Game, Game Interaction, Implicit Assessment, Learner Model, Learner Profile, Learner’s Personality, Validation","PeriodicalId":298910,"journal":{"name":"Int. J. Distance Educ. Technol.","volume":"25 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2017-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"18","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Int. J. Distance Educ. Technol.","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.4018/IJDET.2017100102","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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