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Table 7 Summary of findings across experiments

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

 

Experiment 1

Experiment 2

Experiment 3

Behavioral predictions

 Differ across agent?

***

**

***

 Differ across conditions?

ns

ns

N/A

 Agent x condition interaction?

ns

**

N/A

Person behavioral predictions and learning

 Predict content learning?

  Multiple choice

**

ns

#

  Short answer

*

*

ns

  Overall

**

ns

ns

 Predict causal reasoning learning?

N/A

*

*

Property attribution questionnaire

 Differ across agent?

***

***

**

 Differ across properties?

***

***

***

 Agent x property interaction?

***

***

***

Students rated computer as more likely to:

See

Be intelligent

Know things

Students rated computer as more likely to:

See

Be intelligent

Know things

Students rated computer as more likely to:

See

Be intelligent

Know things

 

Students rated Betty as more likely to:

Feel

Have semantic knowledge

Students rated Betty as more likely to:

Feel

Have semantic knowledge

Remember

Think

  1. #p = 0.071, *p < 0.05, **p < 0.01, ***p < 0.001; ns not significant