Research Design Experiment

Extensive research has been conducted to investigate the relation between the presentation style used in the transfer of information and the retention of that information by target individuals (Moeser, 1978, p. 290). The general trend in this research has been to link higher rates of retention with a presentation style that incorporates questions posed to the target subjects during the information transfer (Kaplan and Simmons, 1974, p. 619). Anderson and Biddle (1975, p. 78) found, however, that the link between higher rates of retention and a presentation style that incorporates questions posed to the target subjects during the information transfer is heavily dependent on the placement of the questions during the transfer.

Moeser (1978, pp. 290303) conducted a study to test the contention of Anderson and Biddle (1975, p. 78). In that study, it was found that, when the information transfer was accompanied by questions that encouraged subjects to pay attention to the interrelationships between the ideas contained in a sequence of information, retention was better than that for a control group that experienced no questioning during the transfer of information. By contrast, however, Moeser (1978, p. 290) found that, when the information transfer was accompanied by questions that encouraged subjects to break the flow of the narrative, retention was worse than that for a control group that experienced no questioning durin

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g of the third question in the question set, (7) followed by a statement of the fourth sentence in the story, (8) followed by the asking of the fourth question in the question set, (9) followed by a statement of the fifth sentence in the story, and (1) followed by the asking of the fifth question in the question set. Five minutes subsequent to the presentation of the information transfer, subjects were asked questions about the story to test for retention. The questions asked at this time were the five questions constituting the question set. Data Analysis Perhaps the most important use of statistics and statistical procedures is the testing hypothesesone of the procedures which permits the making of inferences. There are several statistical procedures which are used in the testing of hypotheses. Three procedures which are widely used are (1) analysis of variance (ANOVA), (2) linear regression analysis, and (3) correlation analysis. Correlation analysis requires the application of linear regression procedures. Analysis of variance is a statistical technique that assesses the effects of one or more categorical independent variables (factors), measured at any level upon a continuous dependent variable that is usually assum
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