DAA students showed superior transfer to a variant design task even after controlling for relevant prior knowledge of the spring mechanism¶

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Evidence · 1 study (2 entries) · causal r2 · q3
Currency · newest study 2013 · not yet checked against its sources · not reviewed by a person

Subclaims¶

q3 i? On the shutter-speed variant design question, DAA First students performed significantly better than Lecture First students. → Dalrymple 2013 q3 i? Among students who showed relevant prior knowledge of the spring mechanism, DAA students still showed significantly more transfer to the variant design task. → Dalrymple 2013 (2)

Evidence¶

Dalrymple 2013¶

Dalrymple, O., Sears, D. A., & Evangelou, D. (2013). The Relative Pedagogical Value of Disassemble/Analyze/Assemble (DAA) Activities. Advances in Engineering Education. https://eric.ed.gov/?id=EJ1076105

q3 · i? · causal · r2

Chi-square on the binary-scored shutter-speed variant design question: 110 of 162 DAA First students scored 1 versus 49 of 163 Lecture First students. No effect size printed.

"Based on the results of the Pearson's chi-square test, students in the DAA First sequence performed significantly better on this question than students in the Lecture First sequence, χ2 (1, N = 325) = 46.557, p < .001"

Dalrymple 2013 (2)¶

Dalrymple, O., Sears, D. A., & Evangelou, D. (2013). The Relative Pedagogical Value of Disassemble/Analyze/Assemble (DAA) Activities. Advances in Engineering Education. https://eric.ed.gov/?id=EJ1076105

q3 · i? · causal · r2

Analysis controlling for prior knowledge: only students who noticed the spring in the system decomposition question were compared, and DAA students still transferred significantly more often. No effect size printed.

"Examining only the 101 DAA students and the 64 Lecture students who showed the relevant prior knowledge of the spring mechanism, DAA students still showed significantly more transfer to the variant design task that required adapting the spring mechanism, χ2(1, N = 165) = 25.224, p < .001"

Discussion¶

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