{"pk":26997,"title":"Supporting Low-Performing Students by Manipulating Self-efficacy in Digital\nTutees","subtitle":null,"abstract":"Educational software based on teachable agents has\nrepeatedly proven to have positive effects on students’\nlearning outcomes. The strongest effects have been shown for\nlow-performers. A number of mechanisms have been\nproposed to explore this outcome, in particular mechanisms\nthat involve attributions of social agency to teachable agents.\nOur study examined whether an expression of high versus\nlow self-efficacy in a teachable agent would affect low-\nperforming students with respect to their learning outcomes\nand with respect to a potential change in their own self-\nefficacy. The learning domain was mathematics, specifically\nthe base-ten system. Results were that the learning outcomes\nof low-performers who taught a low self-efficacy agent were\nsignificantly better than the learning outcomes of low-\nperformers who taught a high self-efficacy agent. There were\nno effects from the manipulation of self-efficacy expressed by\nthe teachable agent on changes of the low-performing\nstudents’ own self-efficacy.","language":"eng","license":{"name":"","short_name":"","text":null,"url":""},"keywords":[{"word":"social agency; educational software; teachable\nagent; math self-efficacy; math performance"}],"section":"Talks: Papers","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/6n60w147","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Betty","middle_name":"","last_name":"Tärning","name_suffix":"","institution":"Lund University","department":""},{"first_name":"Magnus","middle_name":"","last_name":"Haake","name_suffix":"","institution":"Lund University","department":""},{"first_name":"Agneta","middle_name":"","last_name":"Gulz","name_suffix":"","institution":"Lund University","department":""}],"date_submitted":null,"date_accepted":null,"date_published":"2017-01-01T18:00:00Z","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"PDF","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/26997/galley/16633/download/"}]}