In one trial, task-centered Entrepreneur course students analyzed a new business as well as completed business majors¶

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Evidence · 1 study · theoretical r3 · q1
Currency · newest study 2007 · not yet checked against its sources · not reviewed by a person
Evidence quality · No study behind this claim is a peer-reviewed article with a DOI: it rests on a source with no registered publication record (a web page, book or unpublished report). It is kept because 4 design pages cite it; treat it as a lead to check, not an established finding.

Subclaims¶

q1 i? Students in one trial of the Entrepreneur course performed as well on analyzing the fifth business as students who had completed a business major comprised of several topic-centered courses. → M. David Merrill 2007

Evidence¶

M. David Merrill 2007¶

M. David Merrill. (2007). A Task-Centered Instructional Strategy. Journal of Research on Technology in Education, 40(1), 5–22. https://eric.ed.gov/?id=EJ826059

q1 · i? · theoretical · r3

An uncontrolled trial reported anecdotally in the article's closing section: "Students in one trial of the Entrepreneur course performed as well on analyzing the fifth business as students who had completed a business major" of topic-centered courses. No sample size, measure, or test statistic is printed.

"Students in one trial of the Entrepreneur course performed as well on analyz- ing the fifth business as students who had completed a business major com- prised of several topic-centered courses."

Discussion¶

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