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. 2018 Apr 14;5(1):13. doi: 10.1186/s40594-018-0107-6

Table 5.

Medians and effect sizes of performance- and temporal-based dependent variables by condition for both samples

Dependent variables Summer sample (N=390) Academic year sample (N=289)
HE (N=201) NHE (N=189) Cliff’s d HE (N=141) NHE (N=148) Cliff’s d
Mastery speed 8.00 9.00 .04 8.00 8.00 .04
Percent correct 0.64 0.60 .01 0.67 ∗∗ 0.59 ∗∗ .14
Total answer-attempts 14.00 15.00 .00 14.00 15.00 .06
Total regular-hint count 0.00 ∗∗ 0.00 ∗∗ .27 0.00 0.00 .11
Total bottom-out-hint count 0.00 0.00 .10 0.00 ∗∗ 1.00 ∗∗ .24
Problems with hints 0.00 0.00 .03 0.00 ∗∗ 1.00 ∗∗ .18
Completion time 44.90 20.77 .01 21.12 17.88 .19
Total time-on-problem 24.12 18.80 .08 14.73 13.05 .04
Total time-between-problems 0.27 0.27 .07 0.27 0.23 .01
Winsorized total time-on-problem 16.32 15.40 .00 11.64 11.86 .00

Note: Value ranges differ across variables; HE hints early condition; NHE no-hints-early condition; p < 0.1, p <.05, ∗∗<.01