College students who recalled any spelling rule averaged 85 per cent on the whole test versus 81 per cent for those who recalled none¶

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Currency · newest study 1917 · not yet checked against its sources · not reviewed by a person

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q2 i? Among university freshmen, students citing any form of any rule averaged 85 per cent on the whole test while the other 14 averaged 81 per cent, a small difference the author uses to rebut the objection that poor spellers conjured up rules. → Cook 1917

Evidence¶

Cook 1917¶

Cook, W. A. (1917). Shall we teach spelling by rule? The Journal of Educational Psychology. https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=%22Shall+we+teach+spelling+by+rule%22

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Test of 70 university freshman papers on a 50-word list; the author reports this comparison descriptively to show poorer spellers did not fabricate rules, quoting that "the other 14 averaged only 81 per cent". No significance test is printed.

"the 50 college students who recalled any form of any rule averaged 85 per cent, on the whole test, while the other 14 averaged only 81 per cent"

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