A gender matching effect in learning with pedagogical agents in an immersive virtual reality science simulation.
The main objective of this study is to determine whether boys and girls learn better when the characteristics of the pedagogical agent are matched to the gender of the learner while learning in immersive virtual reality (VR). Sixty‐six middle school students (33 females) were randomly assigned to le...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Computer Assisted Learning Vol. 35; no. 3; pp. 349 - 359 |
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Wiley-Blackwell
Jun2019
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| fields | @attributes: recordID: 1 pdfLink: plink: https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=ccm&AN=136200232&site=ehost-live header: @attributes: shortDbName: ccm uiTerm: 136200232 longDbName: CINAHL Complete uiTag: AN controlInfo: bkinfo: dissinfo: jinfo: jid: 02664909 6M1 jtl: Journal of Computer Assisted Learning issn: 02664909 maglogo: Y pubinfo: dt: Jun2019 vid: 35 iid: 3 pid: 480 pub: Wiley-Blackwell place: Malden, Massachusetts artinfo: ui: 136200232 136200232 136200232 10.1111/jcal.12335 136200232 ppf: 349 ppct: 10 formats: tig: atl: A gender matching effect in learning with pedagogical agents in an immersive virtual reality science simulation. aug: au: Makransky, Guido Wismer, Philip Mayer, Richard E. affil: Department of Psychology, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen Denmark sug: subj: Virtual Reality Computer Simulation Teaching Methods Sex Factors Human Students, Middle School Female Robotics Funding Source Safety Adolescence Questionnaires Pretest-Posttest Design Smartphone Analysis of Variance Descriptive Statistics Analysis of Covariance Adolescent: 13-18 years Female ab: The main objective of this study is to determine whether boys and girls learn better when the characteristics of the pedagogical agent are matched to the gender of the learner while learning in immersive virtual reality (VR). Sixty‐six middle school students (33 females) were randomly assigned to learn about laboratory safety with one of two pedagogical agents: Marie or a drone, who we predicted serve as a role models for females and males, respectively. The results indicated that there were significant interactions for the dependent variables of performance during learning, retention, and transfer, with girls performing better with Marie (d = 0.98, d = 0.67, and d = 1.03; for performance, retention, and transfer, respectively) and boys performing better with the drone (d = −0.41, d = −0.45, d = −0.23, respectively). The results suggest that gender‐specific design of pedagogical agents may play an important role in VR learning environments. Lay Description: What is already known about this topic: A pedagogical agent is a character rendered on a screen who facilitates learning.How to render the basic characteristics of the pedagogical agent is an important topic of research.Studies generally have failed to find support for matching learners' gender to the characteristics of the pedagogical agent with instructional videos and animations.The role of onscreen pedagogical agents in immersive virtual reality (VR) has not been as well studied as in other areas. What this paper adds: The goal of this study is to determine how to create online pedagogical agents that are effective for learning in VR.These main outcomes of the study included performance in the simulation, as well as posttest learning and transfer tests.Girls performed better on all three outcomes with an animated young female scientist.Boys performed better on all three outcomes with a drone, rendered as a futuristic, hovering robot. Implications for practice and/or policy: The results suggest that gender‐specific design of pedagogical agents may play an important role in VR learning environments.Instructional designers should consider how to prime the learner's sense of social identification with the onscreen pedagogical agent while learning in immersive VR. pubtype: Academic Journal doctype: pictorial research tables/charts Journal Article ougenre: Article language: English refInfo: holdings: @attributes: islocal: N |
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