Model-observer similarity and task-appropriateness in learning from video modeling examples: Do model and student gender affect test performance, self-efficacy, and perceived competence?

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Highlights:

• We examined whether model gender affects learning from video modeling examples

• Secondary education students learned a physics task from a male or female model.

• Results confirmed that students perceived the task as more appropriate for males than females.

• Students perceived same-gender models as more similar to them than opposite-gender models.

• But no effects of model gender on test performance, self-efficacy, or perceived competence.

摘要

•We examined whether model gender affects learning from video modeling examples•Secondary education students learned a physics task from a male or female model.•Results confirmed that students perceived the task as more appropriate for males than females.•Students perceived same-gender models as more similar to them than opposite-gender models.•But no effects of model gender on test performance, self-efficacy, or perceived competence.

论文关键词:Model-observer similarity,Task-appropriateness,Modeling,Gender,Video,Multimedia learning

论文评审过程:Received 10 March 2017, Revised 30 October 2017, Accepted 12 November 2017, Available online 13 November 2017, Version of Record 15 October 2018.

论文官网地址:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chb.2017.11.012