Lena Pareto deltar i APLEC konferensen International Workshop on Adaptation and Personalization in E-B/Learning using Pedagogic Conversational Agents, in Hawaii, USA, och presenterar följande artikel: A Teachable Agent Game for Elementary School Mathematics promoting Causal Reasoning and Choice.

Till AIED konferensen 15th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Education, in Auckland, Nya Zeeland, presenterade kollegan Björn Sjödén tillsammans med Lena Pareto, Betty Tärning samt Agneta Gulz (Lund Universitet) följande artikel 2011: Transferring Teaching to Testing – An Unexplored Aspect of Teachable Agents (eftersom artikeln publiceras internationellt, är den på engelska.)
Abstrakt: The present study examined whether socio-motivational effects from working with a Teachable Agent (TA) might transfer from the formative learning phase to a summative test situation. Forty-nine students (9-10 years old) performed a digital pretest of math skills, then played a TA-based educational math game in school over a period of eight weeks. Thereafter, the students were divided into two groups, matched according to their pretest scores, and randomly assigned one of two posttest conditions: either with the TA present, or without the TA. Results showed that low-performers on the pretest improved significantly more on the posttest than did high-performers, but only when tested with the TA. We reason that low-performers might be more susceptible to a supportive social context – as provided by their TA – for performing well in a test situation. » Läs mer

”Sveriges bästa uppsats i systemvetenskap skrevs av studenten Ann Nilsson från Högskolan Väst. Därför tilldelas hon årets BEST-stipendium för uppsatsen Lärsituationens komplexitet för elever som upplever svårigheter i matematik – Rutiga Familjen i ny lärmiljö.”
Pressrelease JUSEK, lördag 14 november 2009 » Läs mer

Till LearnIT konferensen Game in ´Action i Göteborg, presenterade Lena Pareto följande artikel 2007: Utility Games: gaming as a design strategy to achieve utility effects (eftersom artikeln publiceras internationellt, är den på engelska.)
Abstrakt: The objective of this study is to introduce the concept of utility games, to develop a characterization of such a game category, and to explore design and evaluation issues particular for this category. By utility games, we refer to games predominantly designed for utility purposes, and where gaming is viewed as a design strategy to achieve the utility. Four utility games were analysed, with the following dimensions: the overall context, the utility objective, the game setting, evaluations performed and challenges related to design and evaluation. The analysis shows that the utility aspects and the game design are highly interrelated and affect each other on all levels of the design, and that evaluations of utility games have many dimensions to consider. A summary of lessons learnt and some recommendations to utility game designers are provided. » Läs mer

Det twittras i samband med den mediala uppmärksamheten kring publiceringen av ny forskningsresultat, som visar att matematikspelet Rutiga Familjen förankrar tredjeklassarens matematikförståelse på djupet.

”- Vad ni är smarta! Forskaren Lena Pareto berömmer barnen i klass tre från Skogshöjdens skola Trollhättan. De spelar mattespelet Rutiga Familjen tillsammans. Rutiga Familjen är resultatet av Lena Paretos forskning. Genom spelet vill hon uppmuntra barns upptäckarglädje.”
Tidningsartikel Västpunkt, 2/2011 » Läs mer på s. 4