Investigating the impact of pedagogical agent gender matching and learner choice on learning outcomes and perceptions

Computers and Education

Volumn 67, Issue , 2013, Pages 36-50

  Ozogul, Gamze ^a   Johnson, Amy M ^a   Atkinson, Robert K ^b   Reisslein, Martin ^a  

^a Arizona State University   (United States)

^b ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Gender studies; Human computer interface; Interactive learning environments; Multimedia hypermedia systems

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER-BASED ENVIRONMENT; GENDER STUDIES; HUMAN COMPUTER INTERFACES; INSTRUCTIONAL MATERIALS; INTERACTIVE LEARNING ENVIRONMENT; MIDDLE SCHOOL STUDENTS; MULTIMEDIA/HYPERMEDIA SYSTEMS; STUDENT PERCEPTIONS;

COMPUTER AIDED INSTRUCTION; EXPERIMENTS; SOCIAL SCIENCES; STUDENTS;

LEARNING SYSTEMS;

EID: 84875758550     PISSN: 03601315     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.compedu.2013.02.006     Document Type: Article

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