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This paper investigates how the peer agent’s learning competency affects English learners’ reading, engagement, system self-efficacy, and attitudes toward the peer agent in a trialogue-based intelligent tutoring system (ITS). Participants learned a summarizing reading strategy in the compare-contrast text structure in the ITS. Results detected the significant main effect of the peer agent’s learning competency on learners’ performance and on engagement.
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Li, H., Cheng, Q., Yu, Q., Graesser, A.C. (2015). The Role of Peer Agent’s Learning Competency in Trialogue-Based Reading Intelligent Systems. 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_94
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