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| Title: | Having an Einstein in class - teaching maths with robots is different for boys and girls | Authors: | Huang, IS Hoorn, JF |
Issue Date: | 2018 | Source: | In 2018 13th World Congress on Intelligent Control and Automation (WCICA), 04-08 July 2018, Changsha, China, p. 424-427 | Abstract: | We conducted an experiment with Chinese schoolchildren being taught symbolic reasoning and solving equations of the form 2y + 3 = 7, using a Hanson Einstein robot together with video instruction. The children were unfamiliar to solving equations like these (baseline 0) and after robot tutoring, they were tested for learning outcomes, while they rated their appreciation of the robot. We found a crossover interaction effect of boys learning more from video and girls more from the robot. The effect was catalytic in that only the combination of factors worked (no main effects). Results are discussed in view of gender-specific technology application. | Publisher: | IEEE | ISBN: | 978-1-5386-7346-1 (Electronic) 78-1-5386-7345-4 (USB) 978-1-5386-7347-8 (Print on Demand(PoD)) |
DOI: | 10.1109/WCICA.2018.8630584 | Description: | 2018 13th World Congress on Intelligent Control and Automation (WCICA), Changsha, China, 04-08 July 2018 | Rights: | © 2018 IEEE. Personal use of this material is permitted. Permission from IEEE must be obtained for all other uses, in any current or future media, including reprinting/republishing this material for advertising or promotional purposes, creating new collective works, for resale or redistribution to servers or lists, or reuse of any copyrighted component of this work in other works. The following publication I. S. Huang and J. F. Hoorn, "Having an Einstein in Class - Teaching Maths with Robots is Different for Boys and Girls," 2018 13th World Congress on Intelligent Control and Automation (WCICA), Changsha, China, 2018, pp. 424-427 is available at https://doi.org/10.1109/WCICA.2018.8630584. |
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