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Abstract
The present study examined whether socio-motivational effects from working with a Teachable Agent (TA) might transfer from the formative learning phase to a summative test situation. Forty-nine students (9-10 years old) performed a digital pretest of math skills, then played a TA-based educational math game in school over a period of eight weeks. Thereafter, the students were divided into two groups, matched according to their pretest scores, and randomly assigned one of two posttest conditions: either with the TA present, or without the TA. Results showed that low-performers on the pretest improved significantly more on the posttest than did high-performers, but only when tested with the TA. We reason that low-performers might be more susceptible to a supportive social context – as provided by their TA – for performing well in a test situation.
Original language | English |
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Title of host publication | AIED 2011 LNAI 6738 |
Editors | Gautam Biswas, Susan Bull |
Publisher | Springer |
Pages | 337-344 |
Number of pages | 8 |
Publication status | Published - 2011 |
Event | The 15th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Education - Auckland, New Zealand Duration: 2011 Jun 27 → 2011 Jul 2 |
Conference
Conference | The 15th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Education |
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Country/Territory | New Zealand |
City | Auckland |
Period | 2011/06/27 → 2011/07/02 |
Subject classification (UKÄ)
- Learning
- Psychology (excluding Applied Psychology)
Keywords
- learning-by-teaching
- teachable agent
- assessment
- transfer
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CCL: Thinking in Time: Cognition, Communication and Learning
Sahlén, B., Gärdenfors, P., Hesslow, G., Lindgren, M., Strömqvist, S., Byström, I., Sjöstrand, E., Mårtensson, J., Andersson, A., Hansson, K., Gullberg, M., Johansson, R., Johansson, M., Falck, A., Roll, M., Ståhlberg, F., Horne, M., Blomberg, F., Johansson, V., Nirme, J., Gulz, A., van de Weijer, J., Paradis, C., Tärning, B., Bramao, I., Sayehli, S., Löhndorf, S., Willners, C., Blomberg, J., Schötz, S., Haake, M., Brännström, J., Grenner, E., Holsanova, J., Wengelin, Å., Johnsson, M., Winberg, S., Balkenius, C., Gharaee, Z. & Bååth, R.
2008/01/01 → 2018/12/31
Project: Research