Title :

How can students’ academic performance in statistics be improved? Testing the influence of social and temporal-self comparison feedback in a web-based training environment

Author(s) :

Delaval, Marine [Auteur]
Centre de Recherches en Psychologie Cognition et Communication [CRPCC EA 1285]
Michinov, Nicolas [Auteur]
Centre de Recherches en Psychologie Cognition et Communication [CRPCC EA 1285]
Le Bohec, Olivier [Auteur]
Centre de Recherches en Psychologie Cognition et Communication [CRPCC EA 1285]
Le Hénaff, Benjamin [Auteur]
Centre de Recherches en Psychologie Cognition et Communication [CRPCC EA 1285]

Journal title :

Interactive Learning Environments

Volume number :

25

Pages :

35-47

Publisher :

Informa UK Limited

Publication date :

2017

ISSN :

1049-4820

English keyword(s) :

Comparison feedback
statistics
academic performance
web-based training environments
procrastination

HAL domain(s) :

Sciences cognitives

English abstract : [en]

The aim of this study was to examine how social or temporal-self comparison feedback, delivered in real-time in a web-based training environment, could influence the academic performance of students in a statistics ...
Show more >The aim of this study was to examine how social or temporal-self comparison feedback, delivered in real-time in a web-based training environment, could influence the academic performance of students in a statistics examination. First-year psychology students were given the opportunity to train for a statistics examination during a semester by doing online exercises in a web-based training environment. Once connected, students received in real-time either social comparison feedback (their score was compared to the mean score of all first-year students) or temporal-self comparison feedback (their score was compared, week by week, with their own previous score). The fact that students were free to connect to the web-based training environment heightened self-regulation differences such as academic procrastination, which was considered as a moderating variable in this study. Because academic performance was measured, the students’ background in mathematics and statistics was also controlled. Irrespective of the students’ background, the results reveal a positive influence of social comparison feedback on statistics exam performance, but only among students who did not delay doing exercises in the web-based training environment. By contrast, temporal-self comparison feedback did not have any effect on performance. Some recommendations for optimizing the efficacy of web-based training environments can be proposed, taking into account both social comparison feedback and academic procrastination.Show less >

Language :

Anglais

Peer reviewed article :

Oui

Audience :

Internationale

Popular science :

Non

Collections :

• Autres travaux scientifiques

Submission date :

2022-05-12T08:46:50Z
2022-07-04T12:55:09Z