A Methodological Study of the Effectiveness of Programed Instruction Through Analysis of Learner Characteristics

Flynn, John T.; Morgan, James H.

doi:10.1037/e469452008-130

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“…However, studies have generally failed to find a positive correlation between achievement in PI and anxiety (Flynn and Morgan, 1966). It may be that studies that include or have included a pre-test depress the performance of the HIAX group, thus cancelling the effect of those characteristics of PI that should facilitate performance for HIAX students.…”

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Motivation, Step Size and Selected Learner Variables in Relation to Performance With Programmed Instruction

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Programmed Learning and Educational Technology

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252 fifth-grade students, categorised into anxiety-ability levels, were exposed to one of three forms of pre-program experience in an attempt to manipulate achievement motivation: (a) a pre-test followed by a satisfactory report, (b) a pre-test followed by no report, and (c) a pre-test on material other than that covered by the program. After the pre-program experience students completed either a large or small step (SS) version of an English money program. Using four criteria (immediate post-test, delayed post-test, time, and program errors) ability was significant for all but time (p<0·01), anxiety was significant only for errors and only on the SS program (p<005), and the Treatment X Anxiety interaction was significant for the delayed post-test on the SS program (p<0·01). This interaction was such that high-anxious students performed better, without a pre-test while low-anxious students did better with a pre-test. Discussion centred on the explanation of this interaction and why the SS program produced more differentiation than the large step.

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confidence: 92%