Predicting risk of dyslexia with an online gamified test

Dyslexia is a specific learning disorder related to school failure. Detection is both crucial and challenging,especially in languages with transparent orthographies,such as Spanish. To make detecting dyslexia easier,we designed an online gamified test and a predictive machine learning model. In a st...

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Autores: Baeza Yates, Ricardo, Ali, Abdullah, Bigham, Jeffrey, Serra, Miquel, Rello, Luz
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2020
País:España
Institución:IE
Repositorio:Repositorio IE
OAI Identifier:oai:repositorio.ie.edu:20.500.14417/3068
Acceso en línea:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0241687
https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14417/3068
https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85097123728&doi=10.1371%2fjournal.pone.0241687&partnerID=40&md5=af988696d1805c4b5ee8f31e2530d3b9
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:adolescent
child
controlled clinical trial
controlled study
dyslexia
female
human
machine learning
major clinical study
male
mass screening
online system
prediction
risk assessment
risk factor
attention
language
neuropsychological test
pathophysiology
phonetics
physiology
reading
semantics
short term memory
video game
vision
Adolescent
Attention
Child
Dyslexia
Female
Humans
Language
Machine Learning
Male
Memory
Short-Term
Neuropsychological Tests
Phonetics
Reading
Risk Factors
Semantics
Video Games
Vision
Ocular
58 Pedagogía::5801 Teoría y métodos educativos::5801.05 Pedagogía experimental
ODS 4 - Educación de calidad
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Sumario:Dyslexia is a specific learning disorder related to school failure. Detection is both crucial and challenging,especially in languages with transparent orthographies,such as Spanish. To make detecting dyslexia easier,we designed an online gamified test and a predictive machine learning model. In a study with more than 3,600 participants,our model correctly detected over 80% of the participants with dyslexia. To check the robustness of the method we tested our method using a new data set with over 1,300 participants with age customized tests in a different environment -a tablet instead of a desktop computer- reaching a recall of over 78% for the class with dyslexia for children 12 years old or older. Our work shows that dyslexia can be screened using a machine learning approach. An online screening tool in Spanish based on our methods has already been used by more than 200,000 people. © 2020 Rello et al. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License,which permits unrestricted use,distribution,and reproduction in any medium,provided the original author and source are credited.