The planning-prompt effect on MOOC completion is largest for students enrolled in traditional schools¶

Claim · All claims
Evidence · 1 study · causal r? · q3
Currency · no dated study recorded · not yet checked against its sources · not reviewed by a person

Subclaims¶

q3 i? The effect of planning prompts on course completion was largest for students enrolled in traditional schools, indicating the treatment's benefit varied across learner subgroups. → Yeomans 2017

Evidence¶

Yeomans 2017¶

Yeomans, Michael and Reich, Justin. 2017. "Planning Prompts Increase and Forecast Course Completion in Massive Open Online Courses." Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). https://doi.org/10.1145/3027385.3027416

q3 · i? · causal · r?

Moderator analysis of the natural field experiment in three HarvardX courses: the article states the prompt effect "was largest for students enrolled in traditional schools". No subgroup effect size or test statistic is printed, so no magnitude is coded.

"This effect was largest for students enrolled in traditional schools."

Discussion¶

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