Do pedagogical agents make a difference to student motivation and learning

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Pedagogical Agent Signaling of Multiple Visual Engineering Representations: The Case of the Young Female Agent (2013, background): “However, research on APAs has commonly been criticized for being designed without adequate control conditions to establish their unique pedagogical or motivational benefits (Clark & Choi, 2005; Heidig & Clarebout, 2011).”
An embodied agent helps anxious students in mathematics learning (2017, background): “…there is a consensus that agent presence enables computer-based learning to be more social and natural and, consequently, could promote learners’ positive affect and motivation toward the learning task (Gulz, 2004; Heidig & Clarebout, 2011; Krämer & Bente, 2010).”
A Systematic Review of Pedagogical Agents’ Persona, Motivation, and Cognitive Load Implications for Learners (2014, background): “Researchers who found mixed results (Heidig & Clarebout, 2011) stated that “evidence is rather scattered and sometimes contradictory” (Gulz, 2004, p. 326), whereas others found that “the potential of these pedagogical agents offer opportunities that should be grasped” (Clarebout et al., 2002, p.…”