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ERIC Number: EJ1332677
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2022-Feb
Pages: 22
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ISSN: EISSN-1492-3831
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The Effects on Secondary School Students of Applying Experiential Learning to the Conversational AI Learning Curriculum
Hsu, Ting-Chia; Abelson, Hal; Van Brummelen, Jessica
International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning, v23 n1 p82-103 Feb 2022
The purpose of this study was to design a curriculum of artificial intelligence (AI) application for secondary schools. The learning objective of the curriculum was to allow students to learn the application of conversational AI on a block-based programming platform. Moreover, the empirical study actually implemented the curriculum in the formal learning of a secondary school for a period of six weeks. The study evaluated the learning performance of students who were taught with the cycle of experiential learning in one class, while also evaluating the learning performance of students who were taught with the conventional instruction, which was called the cycle of doing projects. Two factors, learning approach and gender, were taken into account. The results showed that females' learning effectiveness was significantly better than that of males regardless of whether they used experiential learning or the conventional projects approach. Most of the males tended to be distracted from the conversational AI curriculum because they misbehaved during the conversational AI process. In particular, in their performance using the Voice User Interface with the conventional learning approach, the females outperformed the males significantly. The results of two-way ANCOVA revealed a significant interaction between gender and learning approach on computational thinking concepts. Females with the conventional learning approach of doing projects had the best computational thinking concepts in comparison with the other groups.
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Secondary Education
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Language: English
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