Motivation self-report in ITS

Motivation diagnosis is a virtually unexplored issue in AI and Education research, and we have previously emphasized the need for research in this area [1]. In this paper we present an empirical study in which self-report was used as a way of communicating with the computer about participants’ motivation. The self-report approach is probably one of the easiest to implement, and was suggested by [2] but, to our knowledge, has not been yet implemented in an ITS. To allow us to study students’ reaction to and usefulness of the self-report approach, we developed a prototype ITS called MOODS (MOtivation Diagnosis Study) and performed an empirical study which we describe and discuss in the following sections.