About 80 percent of verbal test items were answered correctly by trainees who heard the best commentary without seeing the pictures¶

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Evidence · 1 study · causal r1 · q2
Currency · newest study 1955 · not yet checked against its sources · not reviewed by a person

Subclaims¶

q2 i? Trainees who merely heard the best commentary without seeing the pictures answered about 80 percent of test items based on facts presented in the film correctly. → Nelson 1955

Evidence¶

Nelson 1955¶

Nelson, H. E. and Vandermeer, A. W. (1955). The Relative Effectiveness of Differing Commentaries in an Animated Film on Elementary Meteorology. Technical Report SDC 269-7-43. https://eric.ed.gov/?id=ED016911

q2 · i? · causal · r1

A supplementary condition in which trainees heard the best commentary without seeing the pictures answered about 80 percent of fact-based test items correctly, showing "the sound track" carried much of the instructional effect.

"About 80 percent of the test items based on facts presented in the film were answered correctly by those trainees who merely heard the best commentary without seeing the pictures."

Discussion¶

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