Teachable agents in educational games can help achieve deeper levels of learning that transfer outside the game¶

Claim · All claims
Evidence · 1 study · causal r2 · q3
Currency · newest study 2014 · not yet checked against its sources · not reviewed by a person
Design limits · Pareto 2014: the intervention came bundled with another change (read from the study by two models, 2026-10-28)

Subclaims¶

q3 i? Combining games with teachable agents achieves deeper learning that transfers outside the game context. → Pareto 2014

Evidence¶

Pareto 2014¶

Pareto, L. (2014). A Teachable Agent Game Engaging Primary School Children to Learn Arithmetic Concepts and Reasoning. Int J Artif Intell Educ. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40593-014-0018-8

q3 · i? · causal · r2

Authors' conclusion from the quasi-experimental study and mental-model change analysis with 443 students. The article states "teachable agents in educational games can help achieve deeper levels of learning that transfer outside the game"; no effect size is printed for transfer specifically.

"Thus, we conclude that teachable agents in educational games can help achieve deeper levels of learning that transfer outside the game"

Discussion¶

Related Claims¶

• Young primary school students can act as successful tutors of a teachable agent — a narrower finding that bears on this claim
• Adding a teachable agent to the standard science curriculum improved fourth-graders' learning gains on both curriculum tests and researcher-designed hierarchical reasoning tests — a narrower finding that bears on this claim
• The authors concluded transfer of motivational engagement from entertainment gaming to educational contexts was unlikely — related