Presenting primary knowledge first and then secondary knowledge was more efficient in both performance and motivation¶

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Evidence · 1 study · causal r? · q3
Currency · newest study 2019 · not yet checked against its sources · not reviewed by a person

Subclaims¶

q3 i? A priming phase with primary knowledge content before secondary-knowledge training improved final performance and motivation compared with the alternative ordering. → Florence Lespiau 2019

Evidence¶

Florence Lespiau 2019¶

Florence Lespiau, André Tricot. (2019). Using Primary Knowledge: an Efficient Way To Motivate Students and Promote the Learning of Formal Reasoning. Educational Psychology Review. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10648-019-09482-4

q3 · i? · causal · r?

In the third experiment, university students (n=227) completed a priming phase with primary or secondary knowledge problems, then a training phase of secondary knowledge only, then a final test. The article reports that "presenting primary knowledge first and then secondary knowledge was more efficient both in terms of performance and motivation"; no effect sizes are printed in the available text.

"Finally, presenting primary knowledge first and then secondary knowledge was more efficient both in terms of performance and motivation."

Discussion¶

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