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Table 1 Summary mean statistics for novice and advanced students (standard deviations reported in brackets)

From: Investigating student interactions with tutorial dialogues in EER-Tutor

 

Novice

Advanced

U (sig.)

Completed problems

1.08 (1.12)

2.15 (0.69)

39.50 (0.019**)

Submissions per completed problem

10.29 (5.06)

11.31 (5.17)

39.50 (NS)

Time per completed problem (min)

15.08 (9.71)

16.67 (10.61)

37.00 (NS)

Time per attempted problem (min)

20.21 (3.97)

17.38 (3.72)

127.00 (0.029**)

Submissions

19.15 (8.32)

19.46 (8.26)

77.00 (NS)

Single-level dialogues seen

0.91 (0.83)

0.74 (0.49)

84.50 (NS)

Dialogues seen

15.77 (6.70)

15.08 (8.09)

86.50 (NS)

Prompts seen

53.92 (22.30)

44.92 (26.26)

106.00 (NS)

Dialogue length

3.43 (0.21)

2.99 (0.45)

158.00 (<0.001**)

Time per prompt (min)

0.28 (0.13)

0.26 (0.11)

93.00 (NS)

Unique relevant constraints

113.77 (8.88)

117.69 (3.28)

70.50 (NS)

Violated constraints

128.08 (44.51)

105.23 (83.90)

124.50 (0.039**)

  1. **represents significance at the .05 level