LEARNING BY TEACHING: A NEW AGENT PARADIGM FOR EDUCATIONAL SOFTWARE

Figures & data

Figure 1 Betty's Brain: Interface.

Figure 2 Components of agent architecture.

Table 1 The Pair-Wise Effects

Table 2 Integrating Results from Two Paths

Figure 3 Illustrating the structure and animation of the explanation process.

Figure 4 Quiz interface and example quiz questions.

Figure 5 (a) Ratio of links to concepts in students' concept maps. (b) Number of valid causal links in students' concept maps.

Figure 6 Multiagent architecture for Betty's Brain.

Table 3 Results of the Memory Test

	SRL	LBT	ITS
Student map included:	mean (sd)	mean (sd)	mean (sd)
Expert concepts	6.7 (.6)	6.4 (.5)	5.8 (.6)
Expert causal links	3.3a (.6)	1.7 (.6)	2.0 (.6)

Figure 7 Session by session data for study 2.

Table 4 Results of the Transfer Study

	SRL	LBT	ITS
Student map included:	mean (sd)	mean (sd)	mean (sd)
Expert concepts	6.1 a (.6)	5.2 (.5)	4.1 (.6)
Expert causal links	1.1 a b (.3)	0.1 (.3)	0.2 (.3)