Toward Understanding the Impacts of Role Model Avatars on Engagement in Computer Science Learning

Studies show that using role models can boost academic performance of learners (Lockwood, 2006; Marx & Roman, 2002). In this paper, we describe an experiment (N=1067) exploring the impacts of varying types of avatar on engagement in an educational game. The different conditions include role mode...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Kao, Dominic, Harrell Jr, Douglas Alan
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: American Educational Research Association 2018
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/113092
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7732-6258
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4992-2201