Wagner students' overall pre-to-post critical thinking prompt gain of 9.8% was not statistically significant¶

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q2 i? The combined average prompt score improved 9.8% from beginning to end of semester, but the two-tailed t-test indicated a statistically insignificant result. → DeSimone and Buzza 2013

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DeSimone and Buzza 2013¶

Frank DeSimone and John Buzza. (2013). Experiential Learning: Improving The Efficacy Of An Undergraduate Business Degree. American Journal Of Business Education, 6(1). https://eric.ed.gov/?id=EJ1054187

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Pre-post comparison for all 32 Wagner Consumer Behavior students surveyed on September 20 and December 8, 2011, with prompts reversed and scores averaged across two graduate assistants. The article reports the 9.8% gain was "a statistically insignificant result" (two-tailed p reported as 0.21).

"While the overall improvement in the student average mean prompt scores was 9.8%, the two-tailed t-test results indicated a 0.21 significance, or, a statistically insignificant result."

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