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Clark, Richard E.; Choi, Sunhee – Journal of Educational Computing Research, 2005
Research on animated pedagogical agents (agents) is viewed as a very positive attempt to introduce more pedagogical support and motivational elements into multi-media instruction. Yet, existing empirical studies that examine the learning benefits of agents have had very mixed results, largely due to the way that they are designed. This article…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Student Motivation, Learning Motivation, Multimedia Instruction
Clark, Richard E.; Leonard, Stuart – 1985
The suspected sources of confounding in current meta-analytic studies of computer based instruction (CBI) are uncontrolled effects of instructional method and/or the John Henry Effect (i.e., compensatory rivalry). To determine which confounding is most plausible, a random 30% sample of the 128 studies which formed the original Kulik meta-analyses…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Computer Assisted Instruction, Conventional Instruction, Drills (Practice)