Scaffolding effective help-seeking behaviour in mastery and performance oriented learners

In order to build learning systems that care we need to increase our understanding of the affective and motivational dimensions of learning. This will allow us to develop a model of our learners which extends beyond their behaviours to the feelings and motivations which underlie those behaviours. In this paper we focus on children's (10 yrs) help-seeking behaviour when using an interactive learning environment (ILE) called Ecolab II. We relate help-seeking strategies to lachievement goal orientation (AGO) by constructing detailed child profiles and directly observing behaviour. 2009 The authors and IOS Press. All rights reserved.