The Effects Of Embodied Pedagogical Agent Integrated With Students' Commonly Asked Questions In The Learning Of Science Among Low Achievers
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Date
2011
Authors
Govindasamy, Malliga K.
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Universiti Sains Malaysia
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This study examined the effect of embodied pedagogical agent integrated with students‘ commonly asked questions in the learning of topic ‗Energy‘ in Science Year Five among Year Five low achieving students classified either as field dependents or field independents. Two web-based treatment conditions namely, Embodied Pedagogical Agent with Students‘ Commonly Asked Questions (EPA with SCAQ) and Disembodied Pedagogical Agent with Students‘ Commonly Asked Questions (DPA with SCAQ) were designed and developed to examine the outcome measures in this study which include learning gain score measured through differences in the pre and post test score, perceived science self-efficacy beliefs measured via self-efficacy items from Motivational Strategies for Learning Questionnaire (MSLQ), perceived motivation to learn measured via Instructional Materials Motivational Survey (IMMS) and learning engagement measured through (i) Learning Engagement Scale (LEngS) and (ii) scores from learning engagement activities. Students‘ view on embodied pedagogical agent as a tool that aids learning was measured via Agent Facilitation of Learning Scale. Students‘ field dependency was determined using Group Embedded Figures Test (GEFT). A 2x2 factorial design study was employed to examine the main effects of the treatment conditions and students‘ cognitive styles and the interaction effect between treatment conditions and students‘ cognitive styles on the dependent variables. The sample of the study consisted of 156 Year Five low achieving students from purposively selected two urban primary schools in the district of Johor Bahru. The participants were treated with one of the treatment conditions for the duration of one week consisting of five periods of thirty minute sessions each and were administered with the research instruments. Descriptive and inferential statistical analyses using ANOVA, ANCOVA and MANOVA were carried out to test the research questions and to validate the corresponding null hypotheses.
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Embodied pedagogical agent integrated with students , questions in the learning of topic Energy‘ in Science