期刊论文

Wenjing Li<&wdkj&>Fuxing Wang

英文

Learning and Instruction

0959-4752

2023

84

101729

10.1016/j.learninstruc.2022.101729

This research was supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China Grant #32000766 to Wenjing Li and Grant #62277025 to Fuxing Wang. Author contributions Wenjing Li, Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, acquisition, Methodology, Writing - original draft, Writing - review & editing. Fuxing Wang, Conceptualization, acquisition, Project administration, Writing - original draft, Writing - review & editing. Richard E. Mayer, Supervision, Validation, Writing - review & editing.

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Two experiments examined the effects of a pedagogical agent's (PA's) pointing gestures, eye gaze, and eye contact on learning processes (measured by learners' eye fixations on relevant elements) and learning outcomes (as measured by retention and transfer test scores) with a multimedia lesson on neural transmission. In Experiment 1, having the PA look at and point to relevant elements as she lectured led to more eye fixations on the relevant portion of the graphic and better retention and transfer test scores. Keeping eye contact with learners tended to improve retention test scores and increa...