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Same-ethnicity agents were perceived as more credible, engaging, and affable, though agent ethnicity did not affect learning in another study

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Evidence · 1 study · theoretical r3 · q2
Currency · newest study 2006 · not yet checked against its sources · not reviewed by a person

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q2 i? College students working with same-ethnicity agents perceived them as more credible, engaging, and affable than different-ethnicity agents, more strongly among African-American students. → 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

q2 · i? · theoretical · r3

The review reports, citing Baylor and Kim (2004), a study of Caucasian and African-American college students comparing same- versus different-ethnicity agents on perceptions, with the tendency stronger among African-American students. No effect sizes are printed.

"college students (Caucasian and African-American) who worked with agents of the same ethnicity as their own perceived the agents as more credible, more engaging, and more affable than did students who worked with agents of different ethnicity."

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title Same-ethnicity agents were perceived as more credible, engaging, and affable, though agent ethnicity did not affect learning in another study
description Same-ethnicity agents were perceived as more credible, engaging, and affable, though agent ethnicity did not affect learning in another study
status review
evidence_strength mixed
newest_evidence 2006
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