Writing to younger students produced better mixture understanding than writing to the teacher, while younger-student and peer audiences did not differ¶
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q3 i1 Students writing to younger students performed significantly better on the posttest than students writing to the teacher (d = 0.33), but younger-student vs peer and peer vs teacher contrasts were not significant at the Bonferroni-adjusted threshold. → Kingir 2013
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Kingir 2013¶
Kingir, S. (2013). Using Non-traditional Writing as a Tool in Learning Chemistry. Eurasia Journal of Mathematics, Science & Technology Education, 9(2), 101-114. https://doi.org/10.12973/eurasia.2013.922a
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ANCOVA among the three non-traditional audience groups controlling pretest scores found "students writing to younger students performed significantly better on the posttest than those writing to the teacher"; peer-teacher difference was not significant (d = 0.29).
"students writing to younger students performed significantly better on the posttest than those writing to the teacher, F(1, 248) = 6.86, p < 0.017, indicating a small effect size, d = 0. 33. However, the difference between the groups writing to younger students and peers was not significant, F(1, 210) = 0.004, p > 0.017."
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Writing to younger students produced better mixture understanding than writing to the teacher, while younger-student and peer audiences did not differ |
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Writing to younger students produced better mixture understanding than writing to the teacher, while younger-student and peer audiences did not differ |
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