2019 Volume 31 Issue 5 Pages 834-841
Recently, educational support robots, which support learning attract many people’s attentions. In this study, we focus on the educational support robots (teacher-type robots) that teaches learners as a teacher. In conventional researches of teacher-type robots, the main role of the robots is to teach only how to solve questions and to explain the contents of the learning. Using such robots, the learner may not learn the contents of the learning because the learner depend on the support of the robot. Thus, in this research, we focus on the cognitive apprenticeship theory in order to prevent this problem. The cognitive apprenticeship theory changed the support according to the learning situation of the learners. Previous studies have reported that the pedagogy based on cognitive apprenticeship theory can improve the learning skills of the learner. Therefore, we think the learner can improve him/her learning skills when the robot teaches how to solve questions based on the cognitive apprenticeship theory. In this paper, we investigates the effects of educational support robots based on the cognitive apprenticeship theory in collaborative learning with junior high-school students.