Preschoolers looked at the teachable agent significantly more often when the agent had been in charge of gameplay than when it had not¶

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Evidence · 1 study · causal r2 · q3
Currency · newest study 2020 · not yet checked against its sources · not reviewed by a person

Subclaims¶

q3 i? Children fixated the teachable agent significantly more often in trials where the teachable agent had been in charge of gameplay compared with trials where it had not. → Gulz 2020

Evidence¶

Gulz 2020¶

Gulz, Agneta; Londos, Ludvig & Haake, Magnus. (2020). Preschoolers' Understanding of a Teachable Agent-Based Game in Early Mathematics as Reflected in their Gaze Behaviors – an Experimental Study. International Journal of Artificial Intelligence in Education (2020) 30:38–73. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40593-020-00193-4

q3 · i? · causal · r2

Gaze analysis (AOI hits on the TA) during the experimental Bird Rescue rounds, contrasting trials with the TA in charge versus the child in charge. The article reports children "looked at the teachable agent significantly more often when the teachable agent had been in charge"; no test statistic is printed in the supplied text.

"Another result was that children looked at the teachable agent signifi- cantly more often when the teachable agent had been in charge of gameplay than when it had not."

Discussion¶

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