Do Participants Exhibit Higher Engagement Levels When Watching Instructional Math Videos Featuring a Female-Presenting Animated Instructor of the Same Race as the Participant?

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Mind Wandering whitepaper on engagement levels when watching instructional math videos featuring a female-presenting animated instructor of the same race as the participant.

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Purpose/Abstract

There were no differences in engagement based on race.

Participants who identified as female were more likely to experience task-unrelated thought overall compared to male-identifying participants.

Participants who identified as female rated the animated instructors as more trustable and as providing more trustable information.

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Mind Wandering Whitepaper: Do participants exhibit higher engagement levels when watching instructional math videos featuring a female-presenting animated instructor of the same race as the participant?

Areas researched: AI, Student Affect

Jeremy Koren
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