Greater time and effort invested in the task correlate with better integration and smaller calibration error¶

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Currency · newest study 2022 · checked against its sources 2026-10-20 (automated, 1 of 1 entry) · not reviewed by a person

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q3 i3 Across the whole sample, integration of information correlated positively with processing time (r = .46) and response length (r = .63), and negatively with calibration error (r = − .81). → Lucia Mason 2022

Evidence¶

Lucia Mason 2022¶

Lucia Mason, Christian Tarchi, Angelica Ronconi, Lucia Manzione, Natalia Latini, Ivar Bråten. (2022). Do medium and Context Matter when learning from multiple complementary Digital texts and videos? Instructional Science (2022) 50:653–679. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11251-022-09591-8

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Zero-order correlational analysis on the full sample (descriptive statistics in Table 1). The authors interpret that "participants who invested more time and effort in the task were also more likely to gain more integrated understanding and be better calibrated"; these are correlational, not causal, findings.

"integration of information was correlated positively with both processing time (r = .46, p < .01) and response length ( r = .63, p < .01), and negatively with calibration error (r = − .81, p < .01)."

Discussion¶

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