Restudy of worked examples invested much less mental effort than testing after four examples, but this difference was not replicated with vocational students¶
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q2 i? In van Gog et al.'s experiment 3, university students who had studied four examples invested much less mental effort in restudy than in testing; this result did not appear in experiment 4 with vocational education students. → van Gog 2015
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van Gog 2015¶
van Gog, T., & Sweller, J. (2015). Not New, but Nearly Forgotten: the Testing Effect Decreases or even Disappears as the Complexity of Learning Materials Increases. Educational Psychology Review, 27, 247–264. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10648-015-9310-x
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The review reports invested mental effort ratings from van Gog et al.'s experiments with university students on the same materials: "in experiment 3, when participants had to engage in restudy or testing after having studied four examples, much less effort was invested in restudy than in testing".
"in experiment 3, when participants had to engage in restudy or testing after having studied four examples, much less effort was invested in restudy than in testing"
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Related Claims¶
- No testing effect was found for acquiring problem-solving skills through worked example study across eight experiments — related
- Example-first conditions outperformed problem-first conditions on an immediate circuit test — related
- Testing after studying four worked examples does not enhance delayed test performance compared with restudy among vocational education students in probability calculation (Experiment 4) — related
- Testing after worked example study invests more mental effort than restudying examples, so restudy is more instructionally efficient at equal delayed performance (Experiment 3) — related
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Restudy of worked examples invested much less mental effort than testing after four examples, but this difference was not replicated with vocational students |
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Restudy of worked examples invested much less mental effort than testing after four examples, but this difference was not replicated with vocational students |
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