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Reindl-Johnson, Cheryl – Association of Small Computer Users in Education (ASCUE), 2004
The purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of a computerized teaching assistant (CTA) on student interaction, student satisfaction, and retention rates of students in a distance course. The CTA is humanoid and speaks in a human voice from recorded sound clips, to give the student the feeling that he/she is interacting with a person,…
Descriptors: Interaction, Teaching Assistants, Distance Education, Academic Persistence