”Högskolan Väst har tillsammans med Stanford University och Lunds universitet tilldelats 1, 2 miljoner kronor för att utveckla grundskolans matematikundervisning med hjälp av IT och digitala whiteboard. Forshällaskolan i Uddevalla kommer nu i en studie att använda sig av Rutiga familjen, ett grafiskt matematikprogram utvecklat av Lena Pareto, forskare vid Högskolan Väst.”]
Wallenbergstiftelsen storsatsar på forskningsprojekt om matematik och IT.”
Nyhet Högskolan Väst, Trollhättan, fredag 26 september 2008 » Läs mer

I den vetenskapliga tidskriften Educational Technology Research and Development publiceras följande artikel 2012: A teachable-agent-based game affording collaboration and competition: evaluating math comprehension and motivation (eftersom artikeln publiceras internationellt, är den på engelska).
Abstrakt: This paper presents an educational game in mathematics based on an apprenticeship model using a teachable agent, as well as an evaluative study of how the game affects (1) conceptual understanding and (2) attitudes towards mathematics. In addition, we discuss how collaborative and competitive affordances of the game may affect understanding and motivation. 19 students played the game in pairs once a week during math lessons for 7 weeks (the game-playing group) while another 19 students followed the regular curriculum (the control group). Math comprehension scores increased significantly for the game-playing group but not the control group (p < 0.05). However, there was no significant difference in attitude change between the two groups. Post hoc analyses indicated that game-playing primarily affected students’ confidence in explaining math to a peer, but not their enjoyment of doing so. Collaborative and competitive activities seem to carry a strong motivational influence for students to play the game. » Läs mer

Rutiga Familjen presenteras regelbundet  i samband med nationella och internationella konferenser, matematikdagar, skolträffar, mm. Ta del av några av dessa presentationer som inledning till matematikspelet och den bakomliggande  pedagogiken samt som introduktion till de senaste forskningsresultaten. Observera att vissa presentationer är på engelska, då de används i internationellt sammanhang.

» A Teachable-Agent Arithmetic Game’s effects on Mathematics Understanding, Attitude and Self-Efficacy (2011, AIED konferens)
» A Teachable Agent Game for Elementary School Mathematics promoting Causal Reasoning and Choice (2010, APLEC konferens)
» Utveckla matematisk förståelse och kreativa resonemang med innovativt datorspel (nov 2009, Skoldatatekskonferens för Västra Sverige)

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

Till AIED International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Education, in Brighton, Storbritannien, presenterade Lena Pareto med kollegorna Daniel L. Schwartz från Stanford University, USA och Lars Svensson från Högskolan Väst, följande artikel 2009: Learning by guiding a teachable agent to play an educational game (eftersom artikeln publiceras internationellt, är den på engelska.)
Abstrakt: Teachable agents are used to support transfer of game playing knowledge to domain knowledge for an educational, arithmetic game. A pre-posttest experiment study show promising learning effects for low ability students. » Läs mer

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