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Overview

Amy L. Baylor is affiliated with the National Science Foundation in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of Computer Science and Psychology, with particular emphasis on Computer Science Applications and Developmental and Educational Psychology.

Their work focuses on topics including Innovative Teaching and Learning Methods, Online Learning and Analytics, and Teaching and Learning Programming. These areas reflect a concentration on educational strategies and technological integration in learning environments.

Baylor has contributed scholarly articles to journals such as Educational Technology Research and Development. A notable recent publication is titled Explicit instruction in the context of whole-tasks: the effectiveness of the task-centered instructional strategy in computer science education, published in 2022 in Educational Technology Research and Development.

  • Rinat B. Rosenberg-Kima
  • Margaret Merrill
  • Tristan E. Johnson

Their collaborative network includes frequent coauthors Rinat B. Rosenberg-Kima, Margaret Merrill, and Tristan E. Johnson.

  • Educational Technology Research and Development

This venue is a primary outlet for their published research.

Best Publications

  • What Factors Facilitate Teacher Skill, Teacher Morale, and Perceived Student Learning in Technology-Using Classrooms?

    Amy L Baylor;Donn Ritchie

  • Simulating Instructional Roles through Pedagogical Agents

    Amy L. Baylor;Yanghee Kim

  • A Social-Cognitive Framework for Pedagogical Agents as Learning Companions

    Yanghee Kim;Amy L. Baylor

  • Promoting motivation with virtual agents and avatars: role of visual presence and appearance

    Amy L. Baylor

  • Pedagogical agent design: The impact of agent realism, gender, ethnicity, and instructional role

    Amy L. Baylor;Yanghee Kim

  • The Effects of Image and Animation in Enhancing Pedagogical Agent Persona

    Amy L. Baylor;Jeeheon Ryu

  • Pedagogical agents as learning companions: the impact of agent emotion and gender

    Yanghee Kim;Amy L. Baylor;E. Shen

  • The design of motivational agents and avatars

    Amy L. Baylor

  • Expanding preservice teachers' metacognitive awareness of instructional planning through pedagogical agents

    Amy L. Baylor

  • Designing nonverbal communication for pedagogical agents: When less is more

    Amy L. Baylor;Soyoung Kim

  • Pedagogical Agents as Learning Companions: The Role of Agent Competency and Type of Interaction

    Yanghee Kim;Amy L. Baylor

  • A U-shaped model for the development of intuition by level of expertise

    Amy L Baylor

  • Changing middle-school students' attitudes and performance regarding engineering with computer-based social models

    E. Ashby Plant;Amy L. Baylor;Celeste E. Doerr;Rinat B. Rosenberg-Kima

  • Interface agents as social models for female students: The effects of agent visual presence and appearance on female students' attitudes and beliefs

    Rinat B. Rosenberg-Kima;Amy L. Baylor;E. Ashby Plant;Celeste E. Doerr

  • Intelligent Agents as Cognitive Tools for Education.

    Amy Baylor

  • Beyond Butlers: Intelligent Agents as Mentors:

    Amy Baylor

  • THE PSYCHOMETRIC STRUCTURE OF PEDAGOGICAL AGENT PERSONA

    Jeeheon Ryu;Amy L. Baylor

  • A Virtual Change Agent: Motivating Pre-service Teachers to Integrate Technology in Their Future Classrooms

    Chan Min Kim;Amy L. Baylor

  • The Role of Gender and Ethnicity in Pedagogical Agent Perception

    Amy Baylor;Yanghee Kim

  • Agent-Based Learning Environments as a Research Tool for Investigating Teaching and Learning:

    Amy L. Baylor

Frequent Co-Authors

Anastasia Kitsantas
Anastasia Kitsantas George Mason University
E. Ashby Plant
E. Ashby Plant Florida State University
Richard Lesh
Richard Lesh Indiana University
Arthur C. Graesser
Arthur C. Graesser University of Memphis

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