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Students with the weakest pre-intervention sourcing skills showed the clearest positive change during the intervention

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Evidence · 1 study · causal r2 · q3
Currency · newest study 2023 · not yet checked against its sources · not reviewed by a person

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q3 i? Intervention students showing a clear positive change (RCI class 4) scored lowest on all pre-test sourcing variables, while students showing a negative change (RCI class 1) scored highest. → Hämäläinen 2023

Evidence

Hämäläinen 2023

Hämäläinen, E. K., Kiili, C., Räikkönen, E., Lakkala, M., Ilomäki, L., Toom, A., & Marttunen, M. (2023). Teaching sourcing during online inquiry – adolescents with the weakest skills benefited the most. Instructional Science, 51, 135–163. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11251-022-09597-2

q3 · i? · causal · r2

Individual-level Reliable Change Index analysis of intervention-group students' change across the four sourcing variables; students with a clear positive change had the lowest pre-test scores, and the article adds that students showing a negative change "scored the highest in all the pre-test sourcing variables".

"the intervention group students who showed a clear positive change (RCI class 4) in their sourcing performance scored the lowest in all the pre-test sourcing variables."

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id weakest-sourcing-skills-benefited-most
title Students with the weakest pre-intervention sourcing skills showed the clearest positive change during the intervention
description Students with the weakest pre-intervention sourcing skills showed the clearest positive change during the intervention
status review
evidence_strength moderate
newest_evidence 2023
generated by process:wiki-ingest on 2026-10-18
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