Learners use navigational help less when a human tutor is accessible, contradicting the expected direction¶
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q3 i? Activations of the navigational help were significantly lower when an HT tutor was accessible (F=6.490, p=0.011), with no proactivity or interaction effect. → Bruno De Lièvre 2006
Evidence¶
Bruno De Lièvre 2006¶
Bruno De Lièvre, Christian Depover & Pierre Dillenbourg. (2006). The relationship between tutoring mode and learners' use of help tools in distance education. Instructional Science. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11251-005-6076-4
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ANOVA on navigational help activations in the four-condition experiment. Means were 0.44 and 0.49 with CT access versus 0.35 and 0.21 with HT access; values were "significantly lower where there is an HT tutor," contradicting the original hypothesis.
"The analysis of variance (Table 15) confirms that the values are significantly lower where there is an HT tutor. This contradicts our original hypothesis."
Discussion¶
Related Claims¶
- Learners heed proactive promptings more systematically when a human tutor is accessible than when it is not — related
- Proactive tutoring increases learners' use of lexical help tools compared with reactive tutoring — related
- Proactive tutoring increases learners' use of metacognitive help tools compared with reactive tutoring — related
- Neither tutoring mode nor human tutor access affects learners' use of conceptual help tools — related
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Learners use navigational help less when a human tutor is accessible, contradicting the expected direction |
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Learners use navigational help less when a human tutor is accessible, contradicting the expected direction |
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2006 |
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2026-10-20 |
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