Structured CAI with spaced practice and spaced review produced better recall and retention than unstructured CAI¶

Claim · All claims
Evidence · 1 study · causal r? · q2
Currency · newest study 1996 · 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.

Subclaims¶

q2 i? Group 1, receiving structured CAI with spaced practice and spaced review, performed better than Group 2, receiving unstructured CAI, on both recall and retention. → Caple 1996

Evidence¶

Caple 1996¶

Caple, Carlous. (1996). The Effects of Spaced Practice and Spaced Review on Recall and Retention Using Computer Assisted Instruction. Doctoral Dissertation, North Carolina State University. https://eric.ed.gov/?id=ED427772

q2 · i? · causal · r?

The dissertation's pretest-posttest control-group experiment analyzed between-group differences with ANCOVA, using the pretest as covariate. It reports "a statistically significant different between treatment groups on both recall and retention" favoring the structured group; no effect size is printed.

"Findings indicated a statistically significant different between treatment groups on both recall and retention. Group 1, which received the structured CAI program as treatment, performed better than Group 2, which received the unstructured CAI program as treatment."

Discussion¶

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