9th-grade students taught electrical circuits with a 4C/ID-based digital learning environment performed better on a learning transfer test than students taught by conventional teacher-centred instruction¶

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Currency · newest study 2018 · not yet checked against its sources · not reviewed by a person

Subclaims¶

q2 i? The experimental group scored higher than the control group on the transfer test, with percentage differences of 21.4% at first application and 22.6% at follow-up. → Melo 2018

Evidence¶

Melo 2018¶

Melo, M. (2018). The 4C/ID-Model in Physics Education: Instructional Design of a Digital Learning Environment to Teach Electrical Circuits. International Journal of Instruction, 11(1), 103-122. https://doi.org/10.12973/iji.2018.1118a

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Quasi-experiment with 125 9th-graders in five natural classes randomly assigned to experimental (nE = 76) and control (nC = 49) groups; percentage differences were computed from mean scores, with "21.4% for the transfer test" at first application and 22.6% at follow-up.

"for the 1 st application 6.6% for the reproduction test and 21.4% for the transfer test; for the follow-up application 11 .4% for the reproduction test and 22 .6% for the transfer test. Then, it turns out that students from the experimental group performed better in the application of knowledge about electrical circuits in new problem situations."

Discussion¶

Related Claims¶

• A companion quasi-experimental study attributed greater performance and lower perceived mental effort to the 4C/ID digital environment, especially on transfer — possibly the same claim (merge candidate)
• The advantage of the 4C/ID-based environment over conventional instruction was much larger on learning transfer than on knowledge reproduction — possibly the same claim (merge candidate)
• During training sessions, experimental-group students were more focused and autonomous while control-group students were more dispersed and often did not complete transfer tasks — related