Students who chose to comment on videos and rate comments (active/constructive) were reported to gain conceptual understanding of presentation skills while passive watchers did not, in self-selected groups¶
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q2 i? In Study 1 with postgraduate students, the article (citing Mitrovic et al., 2017) reports increased conceptual understanding only for the Active/Constructive learners who watched videos, wrote comments and rated comments, and not for passive watchers; the groups were formed from students' own behaviour, not assigned, so this cannot show that commenting caused the gain. → Vania Dimitrova & Antonija Mitrovic 2021
Evidence¶
Vania Dimitrova & Antonija Mitrovic 2021¶
Vania Dimitrova & Antonija Mitrovic. (2021). Choice Architecture for Nudges to Support Constructive Learning in Active Video Watching. International Journal of Artificial Intelligence in Education. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40593-021-00263-1
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User study with postgraduate volunteers using the full AVW-Space version; nobody was assigned to a condition. Of the 42 who logged on, 40 chose to comment on videos and were classified as Active/Constructive Learners, and two watched videos passively. Summarising an earlier report (Mitrovic et al., 2017), the article says only Active/Constructive engagement "led to increased conceptual understanding". Because the groups are self-selected (and the passive group is two students), this is an association, not evidence that commenting causes understanding. The same article's own comparison of Study 1's commenting phase found "no significant difference between CK1 and the conceptual knowledge score at the end of the study (CK2)". No effect size is printed.
"The results of Study 1 showed that only Active/Constructive (watching videos, writing comments and rating comments) led to increased conceptual understanding (Mitrovic et al., 2017). In contrast, Passive engagement did not lead to increased conceptual understanding."
Discussion¶
Related Claims¶
- Constructive learning beats active and passive learning — a broader claim this one bears on
- Identical overt behaviors can reflect different engagement modes: a video-watching example — related
- Engagement mode is orthogonal to instructional task: any task can be engaged at any of the four modes — a broader claim this one bears on
- Specified aspects acted as micro-scaffolds: comments on example videos were almost equally distributed over the aspects, indicating participants watched with those aspects in mind — related
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Students who chose to comment on videos and rate comments (active/constructive) were reported to gain conceptual understanding of presentation skills while passive watchers did not, in self-selected groups |
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Students who chose to comment on videos and rate comments (active/constructive) were reported to gain conceptual understanding of presentation skills while passive watchers did not, in self-selected groups |
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