Immediate-feedback tutors allow learning from errors but deny learning from their downstream consequences¶
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q1 i? Immediate feedback tutors let students learn from their errors by correcting them, but students are not given the opportunity to learn from the downstream consequences of their errors. → Kenneth R. Koedinger 2007
Evidence¶
Kenneth R. Koedinger 2007¶
Kenneth R. Koedinger, Vincent Aleven. (2007). Exploring the Assistance Dilemma in Experiments with Cognitive Tutors. Educational Psychology Review. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10648-007-9049-0
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The authors' interpretive note (type e) qualifying the feedback debate: immediate feedback tutors do support error correction without further assistance, yet withhold the opportunity to learn from errors' downstream consequences. No effect size is printed.
"In fact, immediate feedback tutors do allow students to learn from their errors—after all students are required to correct their errors and can and often do so without further assistance. However, they are not given the opportunity to learn from the downstream consequences of their errors."
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Related Claims¶
- 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
- GPT-4 generates targeted corrective feedback for 66% of student errors, but 35% of hints are too general, incorrect, or give away the answer — related
- Feedback Enhances Retrieval Practice — related
- Providing corrective feedback on practice tests does not significantly change the testing effect (g = 0.63 with feedback vs. g = 0.60 without) — related
- Providing feedback after initial multiple-choice tests cut lure intrusions on final short-answer tests roughly in half, with immediate and delayed feedback equally effective — related
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Immediate-feedback tutors allow learning from errors but deny learning from their downstream consequences |
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Immediate-feedback tutors allow learning from errors but deny learning from their downstream consequences |
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