Reading comprehension relates to sourcing in half of reviewed studies, with no age-based explanation for the split¶

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Subclaims¶

q3 i? Eight of sixteen studies found a statistically significant relationship between reading comprehension and sourcing and eight did not. → Anmarkrud 2022 q3 i? Studies finding the relationship tended to have larger samples than studies that did not, with similar mean participant age. → Anmarkrud 2022 (2)

Evidence¶

Anmarkrud 2022¶

Anmarkrud, Ø., Bråten, I., Florit, E., & Mason, L. (2022). The Role of Individual Differences in Sourcing: a Systematic Review. Educational Psychology Review. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10648-021-09640-7

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The review's synthesis of 16 studies measuring reading comprehension against sourcing found an even split: "Eight studies found a statistically significant relationship between reading comprehension and sourcing... and eight did not". No pooled effect size was computed because measures and statistics varied across studies.

"Eight studies found a statistically significant relationship between reading comprehension and sourcing (e.g., Hahnel et al., 2019; Paul et al., 2019; Salmerón et al., 2020), and eight did not (e.g., Bråten, Brante, & Strømsø, 2018; Florit et al., 2019; Mason et al., 2017)."

Anmarkrud 2022 (2)¶

Anmarkrud, Ø., Bråten, I., Florit, E., & Mason, L. (2022). The Role of Individual Differences in Sourcing: a Systematic Review. Educational Psychology Review. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10648-021-09640-7

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Exploratory analysis of the 16 comprehension studies: mean age was similar between studies with (M age = 15.36) and without (M age = 15.11) a significant relationship, but "a trend towards somewhat larger samples" characterized the studies detecting the relationship, which the authors note can affect the p value.

"There was a trend towards somewhat larger samples in the studies with (M sample size = 139) than without (M sample size = 81.90) a statistically significant relationship, a difference that can obviously affect the p value."

Discussion¶

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• Relationships between individual differences and sourcing vary with how sourcing is measured and with the domain or topic of the materials — a broader claim this one bears on