Oral non-interactive teaching can enhance learning more than written teaching for complex materials¶

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q2 i? With more complex materials, oral non-interactive teaching enhanced learning more than written teaching, though findings across studies are mixed. → Lachner 2022

Evidence¶

Lachner 2022¶

Lachner, A., Hoogerheide, V., van Gog, T., & Renkl, A. (2022). Learning-by-Teaching Without Audience Presence or Interaction: When and Why Does it Work? Educational Psychology Review. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10648-021-09643-4

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The review's boundary-condition section on modality reports Lachner et al. (2018), a 2 × 1 between-subjects experiment with university students learning about combustion engines, where audio teaching beat written teaching on transfer (d = 0.67 per Table 1), mediated by elaborations. No effect size appears in this quote, so impact is null.

"In a related study with more complex materials (i.e., texts about combustion engines), Lachner et al. (2018) even found that oral non-interactive teaching enhanced learning more than written teaching (see also Jacob et al., 2020a)."

Discussion¶

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