Students' Choice of Animated Pedagogical Agents in Science Learning: A Test of the Similarity-Attraction Hypothesis on Gender and Ethnicity

Autor/inn/en	Moreno, Roxana; Flowerday, Terri
Titel	Students' Choice of Animated Pedagogical Agents in Science Learning: A Test of the Similarity-Attraction Hypothesis on Gender and Ethnicity
Quelle	In: Contemporary Educational Psychology, 31 (2006) 2, S.186-207 (22 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0361-476X
DOI	10.1016/j.cedpsych.2005.05.002
Schlagwörter	Animation; Science Instruction; Sex; Ethnicity; Multimedia Instruction; College Students; Multimedia Materials; African American Students; White Students; Hypothesis Testing + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Teaching of science; Science education; Natural sciences Lessons; Naturwissenschaftlicher Unterricht; Geschlecht; Geschlechtsverkehr; Ethnizität; Multimediales Lernen; Collegestudent; African Americans; Student; Students; Afroamerikaner; Schüler; Schülerin; Studentin; Hypothesenprüfung; Hypothesentest
Abstract	College students learned about science with a multimedia program. One group (choice or C) chose to learn with or without an animated pedagogical agent (APA) representing a male or female of five different ethnicities. Another group (no-choice or NC) was assigned an APA by the system. All participants in C group chose to learn with APAs and students of color chose significantly more same-ethnicity APAs than White American students. A significant interaction between choice and ethnic similarity factors revealed that group C produced lower retention, transfer, and program ratings when learning with same-ethnicity rather than different-ethnicity APAs. Results support an interference hypothesis for students who choose to learn with same-ethnicity APAs. (Author).
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