Elaborative interrogation produced lower posttest accuracy than reading the lesson twice in a written lesson on posterior probability¶

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q3 i? Participants in the elaborative interrogation condition had lower posttest item accuracy than participants in the read-twice condition. → Clinton 2016

Evidence¶

Clinton 2016¶

Clinton, V., Alibali, M. W., & Nathan, M. J. (2016). Learning About Posterior Probability: Do Diagrams and Elaborative Interrogation Help? The Journal of Experimental Education, 84(3), 579-599. https://doi.org/10.1080/00220973.2015.1048847

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Mixed-effects model on posttest item accuracy in a randomized 3x3 factorial experiment with undergraduates (N = 198 analyzed after removing 47 who passed the pretest). The article reports that "participants in the elaborative interrogation condition had lower posttest item accuracy than did participants in the read-twice condition". No effect size printed.

"participants in the elaborative interrogation condition had lower posttest item accuracy than did participants in the read-twice condition, B = 3.75, Wald Z = 13.81, p < .001"

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