Sixth-grade students using CTSiM showed significant pre-to-post gains on acceleration, diffusion, and CT tests, with moderate effect sizes for acceleration (0.43) and CT (0.57) and a large effect size for diffusion (0.9)¶
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q3 i2 Students showed significant pre-to-post improvements on all three tests, with moderate effect sizes for acceleration and CT gains (0.43 and 0.57) and a large effect size for diffusion (0.9). → Ningyu Zhang 2022
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Ningyu Zhang 2022¶
Ningyu Zhang, Gautam Biswas, Nicole Hutchins. (2022). Measuring and Analyzing Students' Strategic Learning Behaviors in Open-Ended Learning Environments. International Journal of Artificial Intelligence in Education, 32, 931–970. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40593-021-00275-x
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Classroom study with 52 sixth-grade students over 14 days using CTSiM; non-parametric Mann-Whitney U-Tests on pre-post scores. The article reports "significant improvements in their pre- to post-test scores" with effect sizes computed as Z/√N rather than Cohen's d.
"In all three tests, students showed significant improvements in their pre- to post-test scores, with moderate effect sizes for the acceleration and CT test gains (0.43 and 0.57, respectively), and a large effect size for the diffusion test (0.9)."
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Learner Variables¶
- Critical Thinking — outcome: instruction changes it
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Sixth-grade students using CTSiM showed significant pre-to-post gains on acceleration, diffusion, and CT tests, with moderate effect sizes for acceleration (0.43) and CT (0.57) and a large effect size for diffusion (0.9) |
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Sixth-grade students using CTSiM showed significant pre-to-post gains on acceleration, diffusion, and CT tests, with moderate effect sizes for acceleration (0.43) and CT (0.57) and a large effect size for diffusion (0.9) |
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