Deliverable 4.4 - INSEAD CALT

AtGentive IST-4-027529-STP - Attentive Agents for Collaborative Learners5. Community effects on learningIt is always the case that the learning process is somehow influenced by the environment inwhich it takes place, and in particular by the social aspects of the environment. This isreflected in table 23 that analyses the effect that belonging to a specific class has on theperformance of the learning tasks. Basically the quality of every task in the learning processis significantly affected by the class in which the learning takes place. Table 23 shows thatthere is a significant class effect on the number of questions asked to the expert (P=0.001),having a good grade in the introduction (P=0.02), having many paragraphs in the paper(P=0.0015) and quality of paper (p=0.003) in the total sample..Independent VariableQuestions_asked 0.005 (0.15) (0.001)Status 0.21 (0.18) (0.09)intro -0.39 (0.12) (0.02)Good_goal 0.008 (0.92) (0.22)cc -0.14 (0.11) (0.12)paraphase 0.28 (0.14) (0.015)Qualityof_paper 0.44 (0.13) (0.003)Questions 0.37 (0.13) (0.13)Chi Square Test: Gamma (ASE) (P-value)Table 23 - Analysis of class effect on the quality of each of the learning tasks for thewhole SampleThis interaction between the environment and the learning process is also reflected in theExperimental sample as shown in table 24 where are highlighted the class effects on thenumber of questions asked to the expert (P=0.003) and on the quality of the paper (P=0.01)in the experimental sample.Independent VariableQuestions_asked -0.20 (0.19) (0.003)Status 0.13 (0.25) (0.09)intro -Good_goal 0.23 (0.32) (0.42)cc -paraphase -Qualityof_paper 0.51 (0.17)(0.01)Questions -Chi SquareTest: gamma (ase) (P-value)Table 24 - Analysis of class effect on the quality of each of the learning tasks for theExperimental SampleDel 4.4: AtGentive Final Evaluation Report – Appendix C page 22