Adaptive learning showed a statistically significant effect on learning skills but not on building factual knowledge in a meta-analysis of 21 Health & Welfare studies¶
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q2 i? A meta-analysis of 21 Health & Welfare studies found adaptive learning had a statistically significant effect on learning skills only, not on factual knowledge. → Bond 2024
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Bond 2024¶
Bond, M., Khosravi, H., De Laat, M., Bergdahl, N., Negrea, V., Oxley, E., Pham, P., Chong, S. W. & Siemens, G. (2024). A meta systematic review of artificial intelligence in higher education: a call for increased ethics, collaboration, and rigour. International Journal of Educational Technology in Higher Education. https://doi.org/10.1186/s41239-023-00436-z
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The tertiary review reports, citing Fontaine et al. (2019), a meta-analysis of 21 Health & Welfare studies in which adaptive learning significantly affected learning skills but not factual knowledge. No effect size is printed in this article; attributed as the source attributes it.
"Fontaine et al. 's (2019) meta-analysis of 21 Health & Welfare studies found that adaptive learning only had a statistically significant effect on learning skills, rather than on building factual knowledge."
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Adaptive learning showed a statistically significant effect on learning skills but not on building factual knowledge in a meta-analysis of 21 Health & Welfare studies |
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Adaptive learning showed a statistically significant effect on learning skills but not on building factual knowledge in a meta-analysis of 21 Health & Welfare studies |
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