The application of artificial intelligence tools provides the opportunity for improvements in several sectors, including education. A companion providing constant motivation can help students towards advanced engagement, learning and performance. In this direction, the present study explores the importance of feedback by considering many factors together, such as feedback provider, feedback type and feedback sequence on students’ visual attention and performance. An experiment was performed with two feedback providers, a social robot Pepper and a human companion; during the task, they provided three types of feedback: negative, neutral and positive. The task was to search for an object in the specified image within a certain time. Furthermore, four scenarios were formed to observe the impact of the feedback provider and the order of feedback provided. The participants were equipped with wearable eye trackers, Tobii Pro glasses 3, to collect their eye movement data. The aim of the paper is to evaluate the effectiveness of Pepper's feedback in comparison to human feedback in motivating users to enhance their visual attention and performance. The findings of the present study indicate the comparable influence of both robot and human feedback on participants’ visual attention and performance, possibly more so with feedback from Pepper. Thus, it suggests that social robots have the potential to inspire participants as human companions and can be utilized as teaching assistants. However, it is important to explore this further with a diverse and increased number of participants in real settings.