The Effects Of Embodied Pedagogical Agent Integrated With Students' Commonly Asked Questions In The Learning Of Science Among Low Achievers

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 condition...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Govindasamy, Malliga K.
Format: Thesis
Language:English
Published: 2011
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Online Access:http://eprints.usm.my/41992/1/MALLIGA_K._GOVINDASAMY.pdf
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Summary: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.