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| Title | Transferring Teaching to Testing – an Unexplored Aspect of Teachable Agents |
| Author/s | Björn Sjödén, Betty Tärning, Lena Pareto, Agneta Gulz |
| Department/s |
Cognitive Science
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| Full-text | Full text is not available in this archive |
| Publication/Series | AIED 2011 LNAI 6738 |
| Publishing year | 2011 |
| Pages | 8 |
| Pages | 337 - 344 |
| Document type | Conference |
| Conference name | The 15th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Education |
| Conference date | 2011-06-27 - 2011-07-02 |
| Conference location | Auckland, New Zealand |
| Status | published |
| Quality controlled | yes |
| Editor | Gautam Biswas, Susan Bull |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg |
| Abstract English | The present study examined whether socio-motivational effects from working with a Teachable Agent (TA) might transfer from the formative learning phase to a summative test situation. Forty-nine students (9-10 years old) performed a digital pretest of math skills, then played a TA-based educational math game in school over a period of eight weeks. Thereafter, the students were divided into two groups, matched according to their pretest scores, and randomly assigned one of two posttest conditions: either with the TA present, or without the TA. Results showed that low-performers on the pretest improved significantly more on the posttest than did high-performers, but only when tested with the TA. We reason that low-performers might be more susceptible to a supportive social context – as provided by their TA – for performing well in a test situation. |
| Subject |
Technology and Engineering Social Sciences |
| Keywords | teachable agent, learning-by-teaching, assessment, transfer |
| Project | Cognition, Communication and Learning |
| Funder |
Knowledge Foundation! |
| Funder |
Wallenberg Global Learning Foundation |
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