LC students scored significantly lower on the full Paranormal Beliefs scale than other SJFC students, but only four of seven subscale comparisons were significant.¶

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Currency · newest study 2013 · not yet checked against its sources · not reviewed by a person · overdue for a recheck since 2016: local conditions change quickly

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q3 i2 LC students scored significantly lower on the entire Paranormal Beliefs scale than the typical St. John Fisher College student (d = .69). → Franz 2013 q3 i? LC students scored lower on each subscale than other SJFC students, though only four of seven comparisons were statistically significant. → Franz 2013

Evidence¶

Franz 2013¶

Franz, T. M., & Green, K. H. (2013). The impact of an interdisciplinary learning community course on pseudoscientific reasoning in first-year science students. Journal of the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, 13(5), 90–105. https://eric.ed.gov/?id=EJ1017127

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Independent-samples t-tests comparing LC post-test scores (n = 43) to other SJFC students (n = 228): full scale M = 2.34 vs. 2.74, d = .69; Table 4 marks four subscales as significant (e.g., psi d = .87) and three as non-significant.

"the students in our learning community scored significantly lower on the entire Paranormal Beliefs scale than the typical St. John Fisher College student. Additionally, the students in our learning community scored lower on each of the paranormal beliefs subscales than the typical St. John Fisher College student, although only four of seven of these comparisons were statistically significant."

Discussion¶

Related Claims¶

• The article reports that without explicitly applying critical thinking to pseudoscientific content, students may develop strong scientific reasoning while still holding uncritical paranormal beliefs. — related
• Students in the interdisciplinary learning community had significantly lower paranormal beliefs at the end of the semester than at the beginning (Cohen's d = .74 on the full scale). — related