The inductively tutored group gave distinctly better-quality explanations of the fallacies they detected than the class-taught group¶

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q2 i? On average the tutored observers produced 24 'very good' explanations of invalidity against 9.8 for the class-taught observers. → Felix Sachs 1913

Evidence¶

Felix Sachs 1913¶

Felix Sachs. (1913). Preliminary Study of the Relative Efficiency of Inductive and Deductive Teaching of Logical Reasoning. The Journal of Educational Psychology. https://www.jstor.org/journal/jeducpsyc

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Second scored task of the same 45-example comparison: explanations of invalidity rated very good, good, fair, poor or none. Tutored observers averaged 24 'very good' explanations versus 9.8 for the class-taught group. No effect size is printed.

"The quality of the reasons advanced for the decisions of invalidity is very distinctly superior in the inductively taught group, for on the average, they gave 24 'very good' explanations as against 9.8 explanations of that quality on the part of the other observers."

Discussion¶

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