Group discussions and test-enhanced learning: individual learning outcomes and personality characteristics

Figures & data

Figure 1. Mean proportion of correct responses for the three groups in the three retention tests. Error bars represent the standard error of the mean.

Table 1. Mean (SD) retention test performance at the immediate test, one-week test and four-week test in the three groups as a function of NFC (i.e. METQ) score. The lower part of the table shows the means (SD) merged across the three groups.

Group	Retention tests
	Immediate	One week	Four weeks
	M (SD)	M (SD)	M (SD)
Test-enhanced learning group
High NFC	12.53 (3.4)	10.95 (4.1)	9.53 (4.4)
Low NFC	12.23 (3.4)	10.31 (3.9)	9.62 (3.2)
Discussion group
High NFC	8.53 (3.2)	7.41 (3.6)	7.12 (3.5)
Low NFC	6.39 (2.9)	5.78 (2.6)	5.33 (2.7)
Discussion group with feedback
High NFC	9.43 (4.4)	9.57 (3.8)	7.36 (4.0)
Low NFC	7.06 (3.2)	6.69 (3.3)	5.63 (2.6)
Total group
High NFC	10.30 (4.0)	9.36 (4.1)	8.10 (4.0)
Low NFC	8.23 (3.9)	7.34 (3.7)	6.62 (3.3)