Technology-enhanced adaptive teaching improves delayed but not immediate learning outcomes compared with business-as-usual teaching¶

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q3 i2 Students in technology-enhanced adaptive teaching units significantly outperformed control students on the four-week delayed posttest (β = 0.27, small effect), while the immediate posttest difference was not significant. → Sibley 2025

Evidence¶

Sibley 2025¶

Sibley, L., Fabian, A., Plicht, C., Pagano, L., Ehrhardt, N., Wellert, L., Bohl, T., & Lachner, A. (2025). Adaptive teaching with technology enhances lasting learning. Learning and Instruction. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.learninstruc.2025.102141

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Quasi-experimental pre-post-delayed-test study with parallel classes as controls (N = 656, k = 12 units), cluster-robust fixed-effect models. The delayed benefit was "significant in the four-week delayed test (β = 0.27, p = .003, small effect)"; the immediate difference was not significant.

"this effect, however, was not significant (β = 0.16, p = .069). Interestingly, the effect was significant in the four-week delayed test (β = 0.27, p = .003, small effect)."

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