Over the past decade, education technology has become increasingly available in elementary schools. Ideally, its purpose is to improve the learning environment and enhance a students ability to succeed. This research hopes to further the innovation of education technology and education based on technological theory. Based on behaviorism, anchored instruction, and retention will the research be constructed and analyzed. This investigation analyzes if 2nd-grade students will retain information from a story delivered by a robot, through pre-programmed voice variability and motions, better than a story delivered by a human. Through an independent test group that receives the interactive story from a human and a dependent test group that receives the interactive story from a robot, retention of materials and problems solved can be measured quantitatively. By administering a quantifiable test to both groups, rates of retention are gathered and analyzed with the expectation of higher levels from the dependent test group.
