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    The effects of project based learning approach in pedagogical agent assisted learning environment on students’ achievements and attitudes in human computer interaction course
    (Bahçeşehir Üniversitesi Fen Bilimleri Enstitüsü, 2011-09) Karaca, Efsun; Karahoca, Adem
    The purpose of this study is to specify the effects of pedagogical agent assisted project based learning approach on students' achievements and attitudes in Human-Computer Interaction course. Research is done on a group consisting of 46 Software Engineering students taking HCI course from Bahçeşehir University in spring semester of the 2009-2010 academic years. In this research, to test the perception of course content, chapter assessment tests were applied to students as pre-test and post-test. Students that take the HCI course with pedagogical assisted project based learning approach separated into 11 groups consisting of 2-6 students to work on different subjects. In order to determine the students' achievements in and attitudes towards the activities of pedagogical agent assisted project based learning approach, 'Project-Based Learning Attitude Scale, 'Pedagogical Agent Satisfaction Survey and 'Perception of Course Content Attitude Scale' developed by the researcher were applied to each group. Perception of Course Content Attitude Scale was applied twice in order to compare the students' attitudes towards the HCI course which project-based learning approach was applied; and pre-test and post-test results of the questionnaire have examined. Furthermore, chapter review tests were applied twice as pre- test and post-test before and after the pedagogical agent assisted learning in web medium. In the statistical analysis of the data, t-tests, ANOVA and correlation coefficient was used. The statistical analyses were done on SPSS 17.0. The significance of the data was tested at the significance level of .05. As a result, according to the answers given to the surveys and final project grades, it is found that pedagogical agent assisted project based learning approach affects students' achievements and attitudes in human computer interaction course in a good way.