Every group of college freshmen learned significantly from each educational film as measured by pre-test to post-test gains¶

Claim · All claims
Evidence · 1 study · causal r? · q3
Currency · newest study 1953 · not yet checked against its sources · not reviewed by a person

Subclaims¶

q3 i? Pre-test to post-test differences were highly significant for every group shown a science film, indicating learning from each film. → Research Abstracts: Films 1953

q2 i? Pre-test to post-test score differences were highly significant for every group and every film, indicating learning occurred from each film at every repetition level. → RESEARCH ABSTRACTS: FILMS 1953

Evidence¶

Research Abstracts: Films 1953¶

Research Abstracts: Films. (1953). https://eric.ed.gov

q3 · i? · causal · r?

Controlled experiment by McTavish with four groups of college freshmen in a science survey class, each group viewing one of four general science films a different number of times. The abstract reports the pre-test to post-test difference "was highly significant, indicating that every group learned from each film." No effect size is printed.

"In every case the difference between the pre-test and post-test scores was highly significant, indicating that every group learned from each film."

Discussion¶

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