The Effect of Active Student Response on College Age Students Learning Vocabulary Definitions: an experiment done in an experimental psychology class

Running head: THE EFFECT OF ASR ON LEARNING VOCABULARY DEFINITIONS The Effect of Active Student Response on College Age Students Learning Vocabulary Definitions Abstract The purpose of this experiment was to demonstrate Active Student Response error correction procedure (ASR) in college students, and to generate a cost effective method other than Think Fast to teach vocabulary words to college students. By expanding on the purpose of Polson (1995), who found a method to teach students vocabulary …

…Independent Measures t-Test 27) Sample57) Dependent Variable 28) Parameter58) Law of Parsimony 29) Descriptive Statistics59) Operational Definition 30) Inferential Statistics60) Hypothesis Figure Captions Figure 1: This shows the variance of the data collected over the current experiment. In set 1 ASR error correction increased the subjects correct responses, and reached the criteria level over a time period of eight sessions, while in set 2 and set 3 ASR error correction increased and reached the criteria level in three sessions and four sessions respectfully.