More intelligent learners benefited more than less intelligent learners from additional film examples, and supplementary instruction reduced common mistakes on difficult material¶

Claim · All claims
Evidence · 1 study (2 entries) · causal r1 · q2
Currency · newest study 1953 · not yet checked against its sources · not reviewed by a person

Subclaims¶

q2 i? The more intelligent men benefited even more from additional examples than did the less intelligent men. → Michael 1953 q2 i? Common mistakes were less often made when supplementary instruction emphasized the more difficult material. → Michael 1953 (2)

Evidence¶

Michael 1953¶

Michael, D. N. (1953). Some Factors Influencing the Effects of Audience Participation on Learning from a Factual Film. Memo Report No. 13A, Human Resources Research Laboratories, Bolling Air Force Base. https://eric.ed.gov/?q=Michael+audience+participation+factual+film

q2 · i? · causal · r?

From the editorial abstract of the supplementary-examples film study. It reports an ability-by-example interaction: "The more intelligent men benefited even more from additional examples than did the less intelligent men." No effect size is printed.

"The more intelligent men benefited even more from additional examples than did the less intelligent men."

Michael 1953 (2)¶

Michael, D. N. (1953). Some Factors Influencing the Effects of Audience Participation on Learning from a Factual Film. Memo Report No. 13A, Human Resources Research Laboratories, Bolling Air Force Base. https://eric.ed.gov/?q=Michael+audience+participation+factual+film

q2 · i? · causal · r1

Same abstracted study: error analysis showing "Common mistakes were less often made when supplementary instruction was used to emphasize the more difficult material." Reported descriptively in the abstract without a printed test statistic or effect size.

"Com- mon mistakes were less often made when supplementary instruction was used m emphasize the more difficult matetial."

Discussion¶

Learner Variables¶

• General Cognitive Ability — moderator: an instructional effect differs with it

Related Claims¶

• Supplementary examples in an instructional film significantly improve learning, with diminishing returns as example number increases — a broader claim this one bears on
• Audience participation during a factual film improves learning of the practiced verbal material compared with simple viewing, with gains attributable to practice rather than motivation — related
• Medium-ability students showed some tendency to do better in the film-based physics course — related