Montessori and traditional groups produced similar total verbal fluency responses, but Montessori children produced more unique responses¶

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q3 i? The groups did not differ significantly in total number of responses, but Montessori children gave more unique responses (p = 0.023). → Denervaud 2021

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Denervaud 2021¶

Denervaud, S., Christensen, A. P., Kenett, Y. N. & Beaty, R. E. (2021). Education shapes the structure of semantic memory and impacts creative thinking. npj Science of Learning 6:35. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41539-021-00113-8

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Independent t tests on 60-second animal-category verbal fluency data from both school groups. Total responses were similar between groups, while "more unique responses" came from the Montessori group (105 vs 87; p = 0.023); no effect size was printed for this comparison.

"While children experiencing Montessori education produced a similar number of responses (M = 16.4, SD = 5.0) than their peers experiencing a more traditional education (M = 14.8, SD = 5.8), they gave more unique responses (105) than their peers from traditional classes (87; p = 0.023)."

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