Animated pedagogical agents effects on enhancing student motivation and learning in a science inquiry learning environment

摘要: This study focuses on the design and testing of a motivational animated pedagogical agent (APA) in an inquiry learning environment kinematics. The aim including APA was to enhance students’ perceptions task relevance self-efficacy. Given under-representation girls science classrooms, special attention given designing that would appeal female students. A review literature suggested best solution be who female, young, attractive, “cool”. An experiment compared three conditions: (image voice), voice (no image), control image no voice). research question whether motivation knowledge changed over time as they worked environment, condition gender affected such changes. Participants were 61 third-year students (mean age 14.7 years) from secondary school. Gender distributed evenly within across conditions. significant main effect self-efficacy found, with beliefs increasing significantly for both boys girls. In addition, there interaction between time, condition, About halfway during training, girls’ increased experimental conditions decreased condition. For opposite pattern found. Girls also gave higher appraisals agent. Students all realized gains, which did not differ by gender. discussion critically considers need for, scaffolding environments