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. 2021 May 31;12:672610. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2021.672610

TABLE 3.

Survey results: Effort by effect size.

Study Survey items nobservation TC M (SD) FC M (SD) p d
Loux et al., 2016 Hours spent preparing for class TC = 52, FC = 45 1.70 (1.42) 2.50 (2.13) 0.016 0.44
Loux et al., 2016 Hours spent completing homework TC = 52, FC = 45 2.70 (1.80) 3.30 (2.00) 0.046 0.32
Nielsen et al., 2018 Average individual quiz score as a measure of effort TC = 229, FC = 136 88.04 (7.30) 89.69 (5.65) >0.05 0.25
Gundlach et al., 2015 Effort: Amount of work the student expends to learn statistics TC = 193, FC = 25 6.01 (0.88) 6.11 (0.96) >0.05 0.11
Cronhjort et al., 2018 Worked with the course contents regularly during the course TC = 413, FC = 226 3.90 4.05 0.351 n/a
Peterson, 2016 Course was demanding TC = 12, FC = 21 4.50 (0.67) 4.48 (0.68) 0.92 –0.03
Yong et al., 2015 Homework score as a measure of effort TC = 90, FC = 86 92.43 90.78 >0.05 n/a

Bold values indicate significant results.