Older age is associated with lower knowledge revision scores, with each additional year predicting a 0.04-unit reduction¶

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q3 i? Knowledge posttest scores decreased with age, with each additional year associated with a 0.04-unit reduction in postExplanation and postCombine. → Jheng 2025

Evidence¶

Jheng 2025¶

Jheng, Y.-L., Catrysse, L., Van de Cruys, S., Kendeou, P., Poels, K. & Gijbels, D. (2025). Investigating epistemic emotions experienced while reading refutation texts through a fine-grained measure of emotion. npj Science of Learning 10, 30. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41539-025-00324-3

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Correlational fixed effect (age) in the mixed-effects models of the 56-participant experiment: "As age increased" scores decreased on both ordinal outcomes (b = −0.04, p = 0.005 and p = 0.007).

"As age increased, participants ’knowledge posttest scores decreased, with each additional ye ar of age associated with a 0.04-unit r e d u c t i o ni nb o t hpostExplanation(b = −0.04, p = 0.005) andpostCombine (b = −0.04, p = 0.007)"

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