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The Relationship Between Working Memory Capacity and Students’ Behaviour in a Teachable Agent-Based Software

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Artificial Intelligence in Education (AIED 2015)

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The current study investigated if and how students’ behaviour when using a teachable agent-based educational software were related to their working memory capacity. Thirty Swedish students aged 11–12, participated in the study. Results showed that differences in behaviour such as time spent on an off-task activity, time spent on interactive dialogues, and the number of tests that students let their TA take, were associated with differences in working memory capacity.

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  1. Department of Computer Science, Linköping University, Linköping, Sweden

    Camilla Kirkegaard, Annika Silvervarg & Agneta Gulz

  2. Department of Behavioural Sciences and Learning, Linköping University, Linköping, Sweden

    Lisa Palmqvist

  3. Cognitive Science, Lund University, Lund, Sweden

    Magnus Haake

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  1. University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

    Cristina Conati

  2. Computer Science Department, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Worcester, Massachusetts, USA

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  3. Department of Computer Science and Software Engineering, University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand

    Antonija Mitrovic

  4. E.T.S.I. Informática, Universidad National de Educacion a Distancia, Madrid, Spain

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Palmqvist, L., Kirkegaard, C., Silvervarg, A., Haake, M., Gulz, A. (2015). The Relationship Between Working Memory Capacity and Students’ Behaviour in a Teachable Agent-Based Software. In: Conati, C., Heffernan, N., Mitrovic, A., Verdejo, M. (eds) Artificial Intelligence in Education. AIED 2015. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 9112. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-19773-9_88

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