Young primary school students can act as successful tutors of a teachable agent¶

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: no comparison group (read from the study by two models, 2026-10-28)

Subclaims¶

q3 i? Students from grade 2 upward managed to tutor the agent successfully in authentic classroom use. → 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

Findings from the agent-tutoring activity based on the 314 game-playing students in grades 2–6 (mainstream) and 7–8 (special needs). The article concludes "young primary students can act as successful tutors"; no effect size is printed.

"3) young primary students can act as successful tutors"

Discussion¶

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