Pedagogical agents as coaches and tutors are most useful with novice learners, while virtual role-players benefit learners across expertise levels¶
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q2 i? Experience has shown that pedagogical agents as coaches and tutors are most useful and effective with novice learners, since advanced learners have higher motivation, self-efficacy, and self-regulation skills; virtual role-players provide useful practice for a wide range of expertise. → W. Lewis Johnson & James C. Lester 2015
Evidence¶
W. Lewis Johnson & James C. Lester 2015¶
W. Lewis Johnson & James C. Lester. (2015). Face-to-Face Interaction with Pedagogical Agents, Twenty Years Later. Int J Artif Intell Educ. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40593-015-0065-9
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The article's retrospective section reports this as accumulated experience citing work such as Wang et al. (2008), an interpretive rather than a single empirical result; no effect size is printed.
"experience has shown that pedagogical agents as coaches and tutors are most useful and effective with novice learners (e.g., Wang et al. 2008). This should come as no surprise since advanced learners have on average a higher level of motivation, self-efficacy, and self-regulation skills"
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Pedagogical agents as coaches and tutors are most useful with novice learners, while virtual role-players benefit learners across expertise levels |
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Pedagogical agents as coaches and tutors are most useful with novice learners, while virtual role-players benefit learners across expertise levels |
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