Using Computerized Study Guides to Increase Performance on General Psychology Examinations: An Experimental Analysis

1996 ◽  
Vol 79 (1) ◽  
pp. 235-241 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephen R. Flora ◽  
Richard E. Logan

The effectiveness of using a commercially available computerized study guide to improve performance on examinations in two general psychology courses was investigated. The experimental design required 37 students to use a computerized study guide on two examinations and not on two others, counterbalanced across two classes. Analysis suggested that use of the study guides was associated with an increase in examination scores. These commercially available computerized study guides may be effective because they use many empirically established general principles of learning.

1996 ◽  
Vol 79 (1) ◽  
pp. 24-26
Author(s):  
John M. Curtis

The effectiveness of using a commercially available computerized study guide to improve performance on examinations in two general psychology courses was investigated. The experimental design required 37 students to use a computerized study guide on two examinations and not on two others, counterbalanced across two classes. Analysis suggested that use of the study guides was associated with an increase in examination scores. These commercially available computerized study guides may be effective because they use many empirically established general principles of learning.


1997 ◽  
Vol 24 (3) ◽  
pp. 216-217 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert B. Graham

This article describes a computer tutorial that teaches the fundamentals of consequences and contingencies in operant teaming. The tutorial content is appropriate for courses in general psychology, learning, and behavioral programming. Applications to animal and human situations are emphasized. The software repeats questions until the student is able to provide the correct answer, but spaces its repetitions to maximize retention. It saves student records as a basis for assignment of course credit. Student reaction to this form of presentation was very favorable. Questionnaire data showed that the students perceived the tutor as more useful in preparing for a test than a text or study guide would have been.


2014 ◽  
Vol 592-594 ◽  
pp. 1784-1788
Author(s):  
M. Sridharan ◽  
E. Siva Prakash ◽  
N. Prasanna

Now a day’s different types of solar flat plate collectors are in use. Out of which only few type of collectors proved their performance by producing better results of expected level. In this paper a new set of collectors are combined as mean to improve performance of series SFPC collectors available in market now a days. In such new combination a collector with reduced overall loss coefficient was used to improve the efficiency of the existing system. New collector with zig-zag flow pattern gives a slight change in flow path. Thus the objective of this experimental analysis is to improve efficiency with new set of series FPC by comparing with existing series FPC. Experimental results obtained give better and higher results suggested by theoretical analysis.


2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
pp. 485-489
Author(s):  
Łukasz Łaszkiewicz

Book review: Francisco Lozada Jr, John: An Introduction and Study Guide: History, Community, and Ideology (T&T Clark’s Study Guides to the New Testament; London Clark – Bloomsbury 2020). Pp. 128. $ 68.00. ISBN 978-0-5676-9284-9 (hardback). 


Author(s):  
David Reiss

This paper summarizes research conducted on three computer-based video models’ effectiveness for learning based on memory and comprehension. In this quantitative study, a two-minute video presentation was created and played back in three different types of media players, for a sample of eighty-seven college freshman. The three players evaluated include a standard QuickTime video/audio player, a QuickTime player with embedded triggers that launched HTML-based study guide pages, and a Macromedia Flash-based video/audio player with a text field, with user activated links to the study guides as well as other interactive on-line resources. An assumption guiding this study was that the enhanced designs presenting different types of related information would reinforce the material and produce better comprehension and retention. However, findings indicate that the standard video player was the most effective overall, which suggests that media designs able to control the focus of a learner’s attention to one specific stream of information, a single-stream focused approach, may be the most effective way to present media-based content. Résumé: Cet article résume une étude vérifiant l’efficacité de l’apprentissage basé sur la mémorisation et la compréhension, conduite à partir de trois modèles basés sur la vidéo informatisée. Dans cette étude quantitative, une vidéo de deux minutes a été créée et lue sur trois types de lecteurs différents, pour un échantillon de 87 étudiants universitaires de première année. Les trois lecteurs évalués comprenaient un lecteur standard audio/vidéo Quicktime, un lecteur Quicktime avec déclencheurs intégrés qui lançait un guide d’étude en HTML, et un lecteur audio/vidéo Flash Macromedia avec un champ texte, comprenant des liens activés par l’usager vers des guides d’étude et d’autres ressources interactives en ligne. Une supposition guidant cette étude était que les designs enrichis présentant différents types d’informations interreliées renforceraient le matériel et produiraient une meilleure compréhension et une meilleure rétention. Cependant, les résultats indiquent que le lecteur vidéo standard était le plus efficace, ce qui suggère que les designs de médias concentrant l’attention de l’apprenant sur une source d’information spécifique seraient la meilleure façon de présenter du contenu médiatisé.


2019 ◽  
Vol 46 (2) ◽  
pp. 109-114
Author(s):  
Patrick J. Cushen ◽  
Jana Hackathorn ◽  
Maria D. Vázquez Brown ◽  
Sean C. Rife ◽  
Amanda W. Joyce ◽  
...  

Students frequently request concept-list study guides prior to exams, but the benefits of instructors providing such resources are unclear. Research on memory and comprehension has suggested that some challenges in learning are associated with benefits to performance. In the context of an introductory psychology course, a study was conducted to investigate the impact of providing a concept-list study guide on exam performance, as opposed to having students create a study guide. Additionally, student preferences for various types of study guides were examined. Results indicated that although students greatly prefer that the instructors provide a study guide (as opposed to making their own), providing a concept-list study guide resulted in poorer exam performance. These results call for future research on the influence of study guides on student performance.


1995 ◽  
Vol 23 (4) ◽  
pp. 296-302
Author(s):  
Christopher R. Grace ◽  
Kathryn Ecklund

Teaching effectively at a Christian college or university demands excellent skills and particularly so in introductory psychology courses. With an expansive area and a large portion of students taking the class to fulfill a general education requirement, general psychology professors are challenged uniquely. Adding integration issues can overwhelm even the most diligent instructor. Yet, few pedagogical and theoretical resources on the effectiveness of different types of integrative components are available. The purposes of this article are to explore the perils and promises associated with teaching an introductory psychology course and to provide some resources and illustrations that have been found to be effective. The article also serves as an introduction to an integration curriculum incorporated into several general psychology courses at two different universities. An introduction to the curriculum reader is provided in this text, as well as an overview of other materials and topics that lend themselves to integrative discussions. Finally, the efficacy of a laboratory type experience for instilling an integrative component to an introductory class is discussed.


2019 ◽  
Vol 46 (4) ◽  
pp. 299-305 ◽  
Author(s):  
Brandon L. Whittington

Although cell phones are often discussed as a problem in higher education research, the literature focuses largely on disciplinary tactics or integration of phones into the curriculum. The present study provides further support for the use of positive reinforcement to minimize the negative effects of cell phones in the classroom. A quasi-experimental design randomly assigned course sections of general psychology to participate in an electronic device-free project for the entire semester or only the second half of the semester. Results provide support for previous research of the deleterious effects of cell phone use on exam scores and further expands the literature by also demonstrating negative effects of cell phone use on classmate connection and course satisfaction.


2012 ◽  
Vol 12 (4) ◽  
pp. 81-86 ◽  
Author(s):  
B. Jaouachi ◽  
F. Khedher ◽  
F. Mili

Abstract This work deals with the evaluation of sewing thread consumption in jeans and classic pants clothing. Six different input parameters are chosen and used for investigation. To objectively evaluate their contributions, a Taguchi design analysis was applied. Based on the comparison between each input parameter effect, this experimental analysis helped us to classify the overall tested factors. Indeed, our findings show that the sewing yarn affects widely the thread consumption during stitching of the pant. In spite of their non negligible impact, the number of stitches per cm and the needle type can be considered as influential input factors on thread consumption. In our experimental design the other tested factors were kept constant.


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