DIY prediction advantage on transfer is limited to receptive transfer and does not extend significantly to productive or explicit conceptual transfer¶

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Evidence · 1 study · causal r3 · q3 · i2 medium
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q3 i2 Active condition children significantly outperformed yoked condition children on the receptive transfer task (d = 0.40), but not on the productive transfer task (d = 0.24, p = 0.127) or the explicit conceptual task (Cramer's V = 0.20, p = 0.079). → Brod 2025

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Brod 2025¶

Brod, G., Holstein, E., Weindorf, L., Colantonio, J., Bonawitz, E. & Theobald, M. (2025). Do it yourself: discerning the effects of self-directed activity on conceptual learning. npj Science of Learning. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41539-025-00364-9

q3 · i2 · causal · r3

In the exploratory analysis of separate transfer tasks, active condition children "clearly out- performed their counterparts in the yoked condition in the receptive transfer task" (d = 0.40). Productive transfer (d = 0.24, p = 0.127) and explicit conceptual task (Cramer's V = 0.20, p = 0.079) did not reach significance; a repeated measures ANOVA showed no significant task × condition interaction.

"Findings suggest that children in the active condition clearly out- performed their counterparts in the yoked condition in the receptive transfer task (t(93) = 1.96, one-tailedp =0 . 0 2 7 ,d =0 . 4 0"

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