“…Arner, McCarthy and McNamara [6] present StairStepper, an adaptive literacy skill training game within an Interactive Strategy Training for Active Reading and Thinking (iSTART) intelligent tutoring system. StairStepper models text passages and multiplechoice questions of high-stakes assessments, iteratively supporting skill acquisition through self-explanation prompts and scaffolding, adaptive feedback based on performance, and self-explanations.…”