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Yueru Lang; Shaoying Gong; Xiangen Hu; Boyuan Xiao; Yanqing Wang; Tiantian Jiang – Journal of Educational Computing Research, 2024
The present research conducted two experiments with an intelligent tutoring system to investigate the overall and dynamic impact of emotional support from a pedagogical agent (PA). In Experiment 1, a single factor intergroup design was used to explore the impact of PA's emotional support (supportive vs. non-supportive) on learners' emotions,…
Descriptors: Psychological Patterns, Learning Strategies, Multimedia Instruction, Multimedia Materials
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Fangzheng Zhao; Richard E. Mayer; Nicoletta Adamo-Villani; Christos Mousas; Minsoo Choi; Klay Hauser – Journal of Educational Computing Research, 2025
Do students learn from video lessons presented by pedagogical agents of different racial and gender types equivalently to those delivered by a real human instructor? How do the race and gender of these agents impact students' learning experiences and outcomes? In this between-subject design study, college students were randomly assigned to view a…
Descriptors: Multimedia Instruction, Race, Sex, Learning Experience
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Alyssa P. Lawson; Richard E. Mayer – Journal of Educational Computing Research, 2024
In multimedia learning, there is a lot of new information that learners are exposed to, making it a cognitively intensive process. Poorly-designed multimedia lessons can introduce distractions that must be dealt with by the learner. However, learners do not all share the same skill at managing incoming information or holding capacity, which could…
Descriptors: Individual Differences, Executive Function, Multimedia Instruction, Attention Control