Title
Finding Impressionist moments in a digital classroom: Writing about van Gogh in an avatar-based environment
Date of Completion
January 2007
Keywords
Education, Art|Education, Educational Psychology|Language, Rhetoric and Composition|Education, Technology of
Degree
Ph.D.
Abstract
This study employed a modified experimental design to investigate how exposure to an avatar-based environment impacts a student's composition of an essay in response to a writing prompt. Drawing on selected developments in situated cognition, ecological psychology, discourse analysis and the literature of writing instruction and assessment, this study used statistical tools to provide evidence supporting a bi-directional hypothesis: Students exposed to an avatar-based environment wrote reflective essays in first person discourse, while students exposed to a comparable web page-based environment wrote persuasive essays in third person discourse.^
Recommended Citation
Hornung, Fredrick E, "Finding Impressionist moments in a digital classroom: Writing about van Gogh in an avatar-based environment" (2007). Doctoral Dissertations. AAI3265824.
https://digitalcommons.lib.uconn.edu/dissertations/AAI3265824