Strong acquisition tasks explicating the organization produce better internalization than weak tasks asking only for a structured summary¶

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Evidence · 1 study · causal r2 · q2
Currency · newest study 1979 · not yet checked against its sources · not reviewed by a person
Evidence quality · No study behind this claim is a peer-reviewed article with a DOI: it rests on an ERIC document (a report, conference paper or thesis). It is kept because 3 design pages cite it; treat it as a lead to check, not an established finding.

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q2 i? Subjects in strong treatments, whose acquisition tasks included marking organizational charts and arranging items into a chart, significantly outperformed weak-treatment subjects who wrote a structured summary. → Eylon 1979

Evidence¶

Eylon 1979¶

Eylon, Bat-Sheva; Reif, F. (1979). Effects of Internal Knowledge Organization on Task Performance. https://eric.ed.gov/?id=ED171804

q2 · i? · no effect size printed; the entry gives only the ANOVA test, F(1,12) = 5.96, p < 0.05 · causal · r2

Experiment 2 two-way ANOVA (input version x acquisition tasks) on the sum of composite scores of all type-a and type-b tasks showed a significant acquisition-task effect [F(1,12)=5.96, p<0.05], despite all subjects studying the same well-organized materials for equal time.

"showed explicitly that the differentacquisition tasks had significant effects (F(1,12) = 5.96, p < 0.05),"

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