Immediate Elaborated Feedback in a formative assessment game significantly improved students' programming knowledge, interest, and problem-solving versus systems without immediate feedback¶

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Evidence · 1 study · review r2 · q2
Currency · newest study 2025 · checked against its sources 2026-10-20 (automated, 1 of 1 entry) · not reviewed by a person

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q is the design tier, i the impact, n the sample, and the kind with its r the rigour judged within that kind: what each code means.

This claim: no standardized effect is recorded in observations/ for it yet, so no benchmark reading is possible.

q2 i? The review reports, citing Hooshyar et al., that Immediate Elaborated Feedback (IEF) delivered via the TRIS-Q-SP game in a Flowchart-based ITS significantly improved programming knowledge acquisition, interest, and problem-solving abilities compared to systems without immediate feedback. → Meriem Zerkouk 2025

Evidence¶

Meriem Zerkouk 2025¶

Meriem Zerkouk, Miloud Mihoubi and Belkacem Chikhaoui. (2025). A Comprehensive Review of AI-based Intelligent Tutoring Systems: Applications and Challenges. arXiv preprint. https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.18882 doi:10.48550/arxiv.2507.18882

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Narrative review attribution: the review reports, citing Hooshyar et al. [125], a formative assessment game (TRIS-Q-SP) integrated into a Flowchart-based ITS using Bayesian networks for decision-making. The article reports significance without a printed effect size, so no magnitude is stated.

"the system provides Immediate Elaborated Feedback (IEF), which was found to significantly improve students' programming knowledge acquisition, interest, and problem-solving abilities compared to systems without immediate feedback."

Discussion¶

Learner Variables¶

Motivation — outcome: instruction changes it

Feedback improves learning by a medium amount on average, but its effect varies widely with the information it carries, and a substantial share of feedback effects are negative — the general claim this finding bears on, with the studies behind it
A review reports that pretesting helps paired-associate learning only when correct-answer feedback is immediate, but helps trivia-fact learning even when feedback is delayed up to 24 hours — the general claim this finding bears on, with the studies behind it
The review reports that students learning with serious games often perform better on content knowledge assessments than those in traditional settings — a broader claim this one bears on
Elaborative Encoding Improves Retention — related
Incidental vocabulary gains show retention problems, with losses over time moderated by feedback timing and topic interest — related
ManyClasses study found no effect of delayed versus immediate feedback or study incentives across 38 classrooms — reports the opposite

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`title`	`Immediate Elaborated Feedback in a formative assessment game significantly improved students' programming knowledge, interest, and problem-solving versus systems without immediate feedback`
`description`	`Immediate Elaborated Feedback in a formative assessment game significantly improved students' programming knowledge, interest, and problem-solving versus systems without immediate feedback`
`status`	`review`
`evidence_strength`	`weak`
`newest_evidence`	`2025`
`source_checked`	`2026-10-20`
`generated`	by `process:wiki-ingest` on `2026-10-12`
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