In the Utah Physics Film Project, filmed and regular physics instruction showed no differences in large and small schools, but medium-sized schools favored regular instruction¶

Claim · All claims
Evidence · 1 study (2 entries) · causal r? · q2
Currency · newest study 1959 · not yet checked against its sources · not reviewed by a person

Subclaims¶

q2 i? No differences between experimental and control groups were obtained with large and small schools. → Twyford 1959 q2 i? Medium-sized schools showed a significant difference in favor of regular instruction. → Twyford 1959 (2)

Evidence¶

Twyford 1959¶

Twyford, L. (1959). Research Abstracts. https://eric.ed.gov

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The abstract reports a ten experimental and ten control school comparison in Utah using the Cooperative Physics Test; equivalence was not tested, only no differences obtained for large and small schools.

"No differences between experi- mental and control groups were obtained with large and small schools."

Twyford 1959 (2)¶

Twyford, L. (1959). Research Abstracts. https://eric.ed.gov

q2 · i? · causal · r?

In the same ten-versus-ten school experiment, the abstract reports a significant achievement difference favoring regular instruction in medium-sized schools; no statistic or effect size is printed.

"Medium- sized schools showed a significant differ- ence in favor of regular instruction."

Discussion¶

Related Claims¶

• Medium-ability students showed some tendency to do better in the film-based physics course — related
• The Physics Film Project concluded that physics can be taught effectively with the filmed course despite inadequately prepared instructors and ill-equipped laboratories — related
• Counting screen-watching persons in infrared records provides a measure presumably related to the effectiveness of a film sequence — related