Investigations on the quality and efficiency of instructive computer‐aided training
Sima Navassardian, Milko Marinov, Raina Pavlova · British Journal of Educational Technology · 1995
Abstract Research into pedagogical processes help to overcome the inconsistency between the diversity of the pedagogical phenomena and inevitable limitations implied by the actual research topic. Experiments play a significant role in investigating the dynamics, diversity and discrepancies in pedagogical phenomena, and contribute to the improvement of the contents, methods and organisation of training. An experiment was carried out with the application of MICROKURS—a software environment for developing tutoring courses which is itself a knowledge‐managed tutoring system. The main features and advantages of the environment are briefly discussed. The purpose of the experiment is to investigate the quality and intensity of learning declarative knowledge through a knowledge‐managed CAI system and to compare the results from this with those obtained by the classical approach. This article presents the organisation, the arrangements, the experimental procedure and the results of that experiment. An evaluation was made of the methods for testing statistical hypothesis with two independent samples.