In the simulation, task complexity and task difficulty explain the majority of variance in the individual-learner WD statistic, with some effect of task specificity¶

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q2 i? Across 21 four-way ANOVAs of individual-learner WD values with task difficulty, specificity, content, and complexity as predictors, task complexity and task difficulty explain the majority of the variance, with some effect of task specificity. → Sweet 2012

Evidence¶

Sweet 2012¶

Sweet, S. J., & Rupp, A. A. (2012). Using the ECD Framework to Support Evidentiary Reasoning in the Context of a Simulation Study for Detecting Learner Differences in Epistemic Games. Journal of Educational Data Mining, Special Issue, Article 5, Volume 4. doi:10.5281/zenodo.3554649

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Factorial ANOVA of the individual-learner WD variant across 21 four-way ANOVAs (one per learner type, 84 design cells) suggests "task complexity and task difficulty explain the majority of the variance in the WD statistic" with some effect of task specificity.

"These ANOVA results suggest that task complexity and task difficulty explain the majority of the variance in the WD statistic with some effect of task specificity as well."

Discussion¶

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