Descriptive trends showed the treatment group improving slightly from pre- to post-test and continuing to improve at delayed post-test, while the control group declined then recovered¶

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q2 i? Although no significant improvement over time was found, the treatment group appeared to improve slightly between pre- and post-tests and continued to improve through the delayed post-test, whereas the control group decreased between pre- and post-tests. → Grimshaw 2016

Evidence¶

Grimshaw 2016¶

Grimshaw, J., Cardoso, W., & Waddington, D. (2016). Can a ‘shouting’ digital game help learners develop oral fluency in a second language?. In S. Papadima-Sophocleous, L. Bradley & S. Thouësny (Eds), CALL communities and culture – short papers from EUROCALL 2016 (pp. 172-177). Research-publishing.net. https://doi.org/10.14705/rpnet.2016.eurocall2016.557

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Descriptive trend in the SPM storytelling data across pre-, post-, and delayed post-tests (Table 1 reports means: treatment 108.27, 111.09, 120.27; control 112.67, 101.78, 123.78). The article presents this as a trend, not a tested difference.

"the treatment group did appear to improve slightly between the pre- and post-tests, whereas the control group decreased in performance between these same tests. Participants in the treatment group continued to improve through the delayed post-test; the control group, interestingly, also improved from pre-test to delayed post-test, despite their decline in performance at the post-test."

Discussion¶

Learner Variables¶

• Time and Continuity — outcome: instruction changes it

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