A teacher-led sourcing intervention increased upper secondary students' use of source features in search queries during online inquiry¶

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Subclaims¶

q3 i? Intervention students used source features in their search queries 2.23 times more often at post-test than controls, controlling for pre-test scores, reading fluency, prior topic knowledge, and topic order. → Hämäläinen 2023

Evidence¶

Hämäläinen 2023¶

Hämäläinen, E. K., Kiili, C., Räikkönen, E., Lakkala, M., Ilomäki, L., Toom, A., & Marttunen, M. (2023). Teaching sourcing during online inquiry – adolescents with the weakest skills benefited the most. Instructional Science, 51, 135–163. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11251-022-09597-2

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Negative binomial regression on post-test Sourcing in search queries (a non-normally distributed count variable) in a quasi-experimental pre-post design with nonequivalent control group; the group effect was significant with IRR 2.23 [1.28; 3.88], described as "2.23 times more often in the post-test than controls".

"Furthermore, the intervention group used source features in their search queries 2.23 times more often in the post-test than controls."

Discussion¶

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