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van der Meij, Hans; van der Meij, Jan; Harmsen, Ruth – Educational Technology Research and Development, 2015
This study focuses on the design and testing of a motivational animated pedagogical agent (APA) in an inquiry learning environment on kinematics. The aim of including the APA was to enhance students' perceptions of task relevance and self-efficacy. Given the under-representation of girls in science classrooms, special attention was given to…
Descriptors: Student Motivation, Teaching Methods, Inquiry, Animation
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Rieber, Lloyd P. – Educational Technology Research and Development, 1996
Explores how users interact and learn during computer-based simulations given graphical and textual forms of feedback. Graduate students were randomly assigned computer simulations with graphical feedback, textual feedback, or graphical plus textual feedback. Findings indicate that graphical feedback provides experiential learning, but that these…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Graphics, Computer Simulation, Educational Methods