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The Effects Of Pedagogical Agents On Mathematics Anxiety And Mathematics Learning, Quan Wei
The Effects Of Pedagogical Agents On Mathematics Anxiety And Mathematics Learning, Quan Wei
All Graduate Theses and Dissertations, Spring 1920 to Summer 2023
The purpose of this study was to investigate the impact of the mathematics anxiety treatment messages in a computer-based environment on ninth-grade students' mathematics anxiety and mathematics learning. The study also examined whether the impact of the treatment messages would be differentiated by learner's gender and by learner's prior mathematics anxiety levels (High vs. Medium vs. Low). Participants were 161 ninth-grade students, who took a required introductory algebra class in a public high school neighboring Utah State University. The learning environment was integrated with a pedagogical agent (animated human-like character) as a tutor. This study employed a pretest and posttest …