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Publication Date: 2019-Oct
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A Comparison of Elaborated and Restricted Feedback in LogEx, a Tool for Teaching Rewriting Logical Formulae
Lodder, Josje; Heeren, Bastiaan; Jeuring, Johan
Journal of Computer Assisted Learning, v35 n5 p620-632 Oct 2019
This article describes an experiment with LogEx, an e-learning environment that supports students in learning how to prove the equivalence between two logical formulae, using standard equivalences such as DeMorgan. In the experiment, we compare two groups of students. The first group uses the complete learning environment, including hints, next steps, worked solutions, and informative timely feedback. The second group uses a version of the environment without hints or next steps, but with worked solutions, and delayed flag feedback. We use pretest and posttest to measure the performance of both groups with respect to error rate and completion of the exercises. We analyse the loggings of the student activities in the learning environment to compare its use by the different groups. Both groups score significantly better on the posttest than on the pretest. We did not find significant differences between the groups in the posttest, although the group using the full learning environment performed slightly better than the other group. In the examination, which took place 5 weeks after the experiment, the group of students who used the complete learning environment scored significantly better than a control group of students who did not participate in the experiment.
Descriptors: Logical Thinking, Feedback (Response), Instructional Effectiveness, Intelligent Tutoring Systems, Comparative Analysis, Pretests Posttests
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