Position in a lecture slide series had negligibly small influence on which slides schoolboys recalled eight days later¶

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Evidence · 1 study · causal r1 · q2
Currency · newest study 1911 · not yet checked against its sources · not reviewed by a person

Subclaims¶

q2 i? Recall of lecture slides declined along the series with only a questionable rise at the end, and fluctuations from other causes exceeded any position effect. → Dell 1911

Evidence¶

Dell 1911¶

Dell, John A. (1911). Some Observations on the Learning of Sensible Material. Journal of Educational Psychology, 2, 401-406. https://doi.org/10.1037/h0074801

q2 · i? · causal · r1

Observational memory test of the 'Fifty Years of Punch' lecture: thirty attendees wrote recognizable descriptions of each slide eight days later, and frequencies per slide were tabulated (Table I, grouped in Table II). The author concludes there are "other causes at work which produce fluctuations much greater than any effect due merely to position".

"It is certain, however, that there are other causes at work which produce fluctuations much greater than any effect due merely to position."

Discussion¶

Related Claims¶

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