Interaction of Abilities and Anxiety with Availability of Objectives and/or Test Items on Computer-Based Task Performance.

Abstract

The effects of behavioral objectives and/or criterion test items on the learning process were investigated. The 123 Ss were randomly assigned to either an example-only, an objective-example, a test-example, or an objective-test-example group. Objectives significantly increased the amount of time Ss spent studying the example displays. A significant ability by treatment interaction revealed that display latency had a negative relationship to reasoning ability for Ss in the test-example and objective-test-example groups, but was not related to reasoning for Ss in the example-only and objective-example groups. Differential relationships between state-anxiety and treatments were also observed. (Author)

Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jul 31, 1971
Accession Number
AD0752991

Entities

People

  • Nelson J. Towle
  • Paul F. Merrill

Organizations

  • Florida State University

Tags

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Availability
  • Computers
  • Learning
  • Mental Processes
  • Psychological Phenomena And Processes
  • Reasoning
  • Task Performance And Analysis

Fields of Study

  • Education

Readers

  • Neural Network Machine Learning.
  • Organizational Psychology.