Simulated classroom assessment with educational films, quizzes, and video/EEG monitoring

Design · All designs
Evidence · 5 claims (5 for) · 1 study (1 causal), q3 · 1 of 1 report an effect size · 5 claims rest on one study

Description

A laboratory analogue of a classroom used to measure learning, attention, and arousal objectively. Participants were "seated behind a table" viewing "30-minute educational films presented on a 19-inch television ~6 feet away", then completed 12-item multiple-choice quizzes; a subset was video-recorded and EEG-monitored. Inattentive behavior was coded by a condition-blind rater in 30-second epochs as look-aways of ≥3 consecutive seconds.

Design Implications

Context

Requirements

• Educational films of developmentally-appropriate content (The Western Tradition series)
• Condition-blind behavioral raters and, for arousal, EEG equipment

Constraints

• The authors state the technique "has not been previously validated and warrants psychometric attention"

Target Learners

• adolescents aged 13.9–16.9 years

Learning Goals

• learning from educational film content
• classroom attention regulation

Claims

• Five nights of sleep restriction cause lower quiz performance in a simulated classroom among adolescents [+W]
• Sleep restriction increases objectively coded inattentive behaviors in a simulated classroom [+W]
• Sleep restriction lowers tonic arousal (raises EEG theta power) in a simulated classroom, with a medium effect [+W]
• Sleepy behaviors (eyes closed, head down) showed medium-sized but non-significant effects of sleep restriction [+W]
• Experimental sleep restriction causally extends adolescent sleep-loss effects beyond sleepiness to attention and learning [+W]

Related Designs

• CytonRK: a custom head-mounted portable EEG recorder for classroom use

Examples

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Key Sources

• Beebe, D. W., Rose, D., & Amin, R. (2010). Attention, Learning, and Arousal of Experimentally Sleep-Restricted Adolescents in a Simulated Classroom. The Journal of Adolescent Health. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jadohealth.2010.03.005

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Field	Value
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id	simulated-classroom-film-quiz-assessment
title	Simulated classroom assessment with educational films, quizzes, and video/EEG monitoring
description	A laboratory analogue of a classroom used to measure learning, attention, and arousal objectively.
status	review
generated	by process:settle-candidates on 2026-10-17
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sources	1 — beebe-2010

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