This paper describes a research project in progress of developing a Multi-Agent System-based educational game QuizMASter for e-learning that would help students learn their course material through friendly competition. We explore the use of perceptive pedagogical agents that would be able to determine the learner’s attitudes; to assess learners’ emotional states through examining learner’s stan...

Effective pedagogical practice promotes the achievement of students and builds up confidence of the teachers in teaching. The major cause for the gap in pedagogical practices can be attributed to the lack of pedagogical competence. The present study employed a mixed method research approach to examine Iranian high school English Language teachers’ perception of pedagogical competence in two pha...

Using the Betty’s Brain Teachable Agents learning environment, we explored a potential relationship between a student’s responsiveness to pedagogical agent feedback and the student’s learning and performance in the system. We found that both dialogue and action responsiveness metrics were significantly correlated with learning gains in preto post-tests, but only action responsiveness was signif...

Training with Animated Pedagogical Agents is a promising new style of training especially fore children with disabilities. In this paper, we present the evaluation results of our training agent system called TAPA, which has a realistic moving body and body language features. TAPA is web based training system. TAPA allows children to access the training sources over the Internet through a user-f...

The study examined the impact of high school English teachers’ awareness of pedagogical competence on student learning. A psychometric measurement instrument of English language teachers' pedagogical competence (ELTPC) was first developed through factor analysis with 320 high school teachers in Guilan, Northern Iran. Based on the developed instrument, 36 teachers were divided into two groups of...

We assume that learners generate self-reference to a topic dealt with in class through motivational prompts of pedagogical agent (PA). This assumption is based on self-determination theory and organismic integration theory. Consequently, are more motivated achieve better learning results. examined the influence success motivation digital environment. Therefore, we implemented PA within web-base...

The study examined the impact of high school English teachers’ awareness of pedagogical competence on student learning. A psychometric measurement instrument of English language teachers' pedagogical competence (ELTPC) was first developed through factor analysis with 320 high school teachers in Guilan, Northern Iran. Based on the developed instrument, 36 teachers were divided into two groups of...

employee empowerment and organizational citizenship behavior have very important roles in the process of accomplishment and continuous development of organizational performance. therefore, the purpose of this article is to determine the relationship between these two variables in employees of qom province pedagogical organization. ninety nine statistical samples were selected from the populatio...