Children's lexical decision accuracy improved significantly for words learned in their own classroom but not for words assigned to other classrooms, with no difference in the learning effect across the three classes¶
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q3 i? Mean lexical decision accuracy changed significantly (all p < 0.001) for own-class learned words but not for words learned in other classrooms, and a one-way ANOVA showed no significant difference across the three classes in the word learning effect. → Fang Wang 2025
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Fang Wang 2025¶
Fang Wang, Elizabeth Y. Toomarian, Radhika S. Gosavi, Blair Kaneshiro, Anthony M. Norcia & Bruce D. McCandliss. (2025). Steady-state EEG captures how elementary classroom instruction drives plasticity for novel visual words. npj Science of Learning. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41539-025-00371-w
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Behavioral lexical decision task administered before and after the two-week learning sprint to 48 children across three classes. Accuracy changed significantly for own-class words; for example Class 1 mean accuracy rose from 0.47 (SD 0.27) pre to 0.99 (SD 0.02) post, per Table 1 and Fig. 1.
"Within each of the three classrooms, mean accuracy changed significantly (all p < 0.001) for the words students learned in their own class, but not for words in other classrooms. A one-way ANOVA showed no signi ficant difference across the three classes ( F(2, 83) = 0.86, p = 0.43) in the word learning effect."
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Related Claims¶
- Words encountered in diverse contexts are recognized more accurately in a pseudolexical decision task — related
- Words encountered in diverse contexts are identified faster, with a mean 26-ms advantage — related
- The AI-enhanced flipped classroom raises post-class assignment accuracy over the traditional classroom, an advantage the standard flipped classroom did not show — related
- Words higher in contextual diversity and semantic richness are processed more accurately and efficiently in lexical tasks — a broader claim this one bears on
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Children's lexical decision accuracy improved significantly for words learned in their own classroom but not for words assigned to other classrooms, with no difference in the learning effect across the three classes |
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Children's lexical decision accuracy improved significantly for words learned in their own classroom but not for words assigned to other classrooms, with no difference in the learning effect across the three classes |
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