The interrelationship between concepts about agency and students’ use of teachable-agent learning technology

Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications

Table 3 Regressions predicting content posttest scores using content pretest scores, condition, and intentional behavioral predictions for particular agents in Experiment 1

	Beta	t	p
Person behavioral predictions
Overall R² = 0.678, F(3,69) = 48.410, p < 0.001
Person behav. pred.	0.218	3.097	0.003
Pretest	0.749	10.709	<0.001
Condition	0.042	0.606	0.547
Betty condition only R² = 0.748, F(2,38) = 56.292, p < 0.001
Person behav. pred.	0.267	3.245	0.002
Pretest	0.788	9.579	<0.001
Control condition only R² = 0.585, F(2,29) = 20.475, p < 0.001
Person behav. pred.	0.150	1.186	0.245
Pretest	0.703	5.551	<0.001
Betty behavioral predictions
Overall R² = 0.637, F(3,69) = 40.295, p < 0.001
Betty behav. pred.	0.059	0.814	0.419
Pretest	0.791	10.880	<0.001
Condition	0.069	0.946	0.347
Computer behavioral predictions
Overall R² = 0.636, F(3,69) = 40.160, p < 0.001
Computer behav. pred.	0.053	0.716	0.476
Pretest	0.802	10.935	<0.001
Condition	0.072	0.987	0.327

The “Betty condition only” and “Control condition only” follow-up regressions include only participants in the named condition