Advantage of causal knowledge on unfamiliar terminology persists one week after training¶

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Evidence · 1 study · causal r? · q3
Currency · newest study 2007 · not yet checked against its sources · not reviewed by a person

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q3 i? One week after training, causal-mechanism-trained novices outperform feature-list-trained novices on cases using unfamiliar terminology. → Woods 2007

Evidence¶

Woods 2007¶

Woods, N.N., Brooks, L.R. & Norman, G.R. (2007). The role of biomedical knowledge in diagnosis of difficult clinical cases. Advances in Health Sciences Education, 12, 417–426. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10459-006-9054-y

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Experiment 2: delayed post-test one week after initial training. The article reports that "Participants with knowledge of causal mechanisms were found to do better on cases with unfamiliar terminology." No effect size is printed.

"In Experiment 2, participants are tested 1 week after initial training. Participants with knowledge of causal mechanisms were found to do better on cases with unfamiliar terminology."

Discussion¶

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