Robot-assisted storytelling produces statistically significant pre-post improvement in behavioural engagement, while paper and PPT groups' gains are not statistically significant¶
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q2 i? The robot group improved significantly in behavioural engagement (p<.05, +27.06%), whereas the PPT (p=.09) and paper (p=.19) groups' improvements were not statistically significant. → Ka Yan Fung 2025
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Ka Yan Fung 2025¶
Ka Yan Fung, Tze Leung Rick Lui, Yuxing Tao and Kuen Fung SIN. (2025). MotiBo: The Impact of Interactive Digital Storytelling Robots on Student Motivation through Self-Determination Theory. https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.01218 doi:10.48550/arxiv.2601.01218
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Efficacy verification section reports pre-post questionnaire scores for the robot group in a quasi-experiment with eight students per modality. The article reports a "statistically significant improvement, p<.05" with a +27.06% gain; no effect size is printed, so impact is null.
"The robot group exhibited a statistically significant improvement, p<.05 (pre-test: M,= 70.83, σ = 18.15; post-test: M,= 90.00, σ = 9.43; +27.06%)."
Discussion¶
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Robot-assisted storytelling produces statistically significant pre-post improvement in behavioural engagement, while paper and PPT groups' gains are not statistically significant |
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Robot-assisted storytelling produces statistically significant pre-post improvement in behavioural engagement, while paper and PPT groups' gains are not statistically significant |
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