PALs expressing positive mood were perceived as more facilitating, engaging, and intelligent than negative-mood PALs¶

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q2 i? Students working with a positive-mood PAL perceived it as significantly more facilitating to learning, more engaging, and more intelligent, and rated motivation to keep working with it higher. → Yanghee Kim and Amy L. Baylor 2006

Evidence¶

Yanghee Kim and Amy L. Baylor 2006¶

Yanghee Kim and Amy L. Baylor. (2006). A Social-Cognitive Framework for Pedagogical Agents as Learning Companions. ETR&D, Vol. 54, No. 6, pp. 569–596. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11423-006-0637-3

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The review reports, citing Kim (2004), a controlled experiment with 142 male and female college students learning introductory instructional design comparing positive versus negative PAL mood expression. Perceptions and motivation favored the positive condition; no effect sizes are printed.

"students who worked with a PAL that expressed a positive mood perceived the PAL as significantly more facilitating to learning, more engaging, and more intelligent than did students working with a PAL that expressed a negative mood."

Discussion¶

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