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1. Langley, Paul A., "Building Cognitive Feedback into a Microworld Learning Environment: Results from a Pilot Experiment"

Type:
Document
Date Created:
1995
Collection:
System Dynamic Society Records
Collecting Area:
University Archives
Collection ID:
ua435
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Description:
This experimental study examines how performance and learning in a system dynamics microworld environment may be improved through the provision of online cognitive feedback. Subjects are postgraduate management students at the University of Westminster, London. They participate in the experiment over a two week period, as part of graded assignment. Subjects have to complete a set of six tasks in an Oil Producers microworld, playing the Independents Producers, with a clearly defined performance objective to maximise cumulative net income over a 25 year period. The experimental design includes three different cognitive feedback treatment groups, in addition to a control group which receives no cognitive feedback at all. All groups receive outcome feedback. Treatment groups only have access to the cognitive feedback during the first three trails out of six. Mean subject performance is significantly greater for the treatment groups during the first three trials, but declines to a level comparable with the control group by trial six. Sustainable mean performance improvements are not achieved, but productivity (performance/time taken) does improve significantly by the end of experiment.