Attendance patterns indicate students were substantially more engaged in Discovery sessions than in regular classes¶

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Evidence · 1 study (2 entries) · design r3 · q3
Currency · newest study 2020 · not yet checked against its sources · not reviewed by a person

Subclaims¶

q3 i? At least 91% of participants attended all Discovery sessions in a given term. → Davenport Huyer 2020 q3 i? By contrast, 60.8% of students missed more than 4 regular classes and 14.6% missed 16 or more classes in a term. → Davenport Huyer 2020 (2)

Evidence¶

Davenport Huyer 2020¶

Davenport Huyer, L., Callaghan, N. I., Dicks, S., Scherer, E., Shukalyuk, A. I., Jou, M. & Kilkenny, D. (2020). Enhancing senior high school student engagement and academic performance using an inclusive and scalable inquiry-based program. npj Science of Learning 5:17. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41539-020-00076-2

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Attendance records across the five-term dataset (268 instances) showed "at least 91% of participants attended all Discovery sessions in a given term"; only four single-day absences occurred within the EE subset (p = 0.074, not significant).

"Finally, students demonstrated excellent Discovery attendance; at least 91% of participants attended all Discovery sessions in a given term (Fig. 2g)."

Davenport Huyer 2020 (2)¶

Davenport Huyer, L., Callaghan, N. I., Dicks, S., Scherer, E., Shukalyuk, A. I., Jou, M. & Kilkenny, D. (2020). Enhancing senior high school student engagement and academic performance using an inclusive and scalable inquiry-based program. npj Science of Learning 5:17. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41539-020-00076-2

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Class attendance for the same 268 instances showed a wide distribution: 60.8% of students missed more than 4 classes and 14.6% missed 16 or more classes per term, compared against near-perfect Discovery attendance; the authors caution the comparison uses learning-time equivalence.

"In contrast, class attendance rates reveal a much wider distribution where 60.8% (163 out of 268 students) missed more than 4 classes (equivalent in learning time to one Discovery session) and 14.6% (39 out of 268 students) missed 16 or more classes (equivalent in learning time to an entire program of Discovery) in a term (Fig. 2h)."

Discussion¶

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