AR Biology lessons got students no more engaged than VR lessons

The study

1. 01

   Who took part

   243 Biology students in the next-to-last year of high school in Ebonyi State, Nigeria. 124 were in the AR group and 119 in the VR group.

2. 02

   What they did

   Teachers who had a one-week course taught the same Biology topics to both groups over about four weeks. One group used augmented reality (AR) and the other virtual reality (VR), for example to move 3D models. No group had lessons without the tech.

3. 03

   What happened

   Both groups felt much more engaged by the end and ended up about the same. With no tech-free group, we can't tell if the tech itself helped. The paper claims random groups without saying how, and gives the lessons as four and eight weeks.

What the study found

1. No difference

   Biology lessons with AR got students no more engaged than the same lessons with VR.

   Trial, groups not picked at random of 243 high school Biology students in Nigeria · vs the same lessons taught with virtual reality · they rated themselves · ⚠ summary claims more than the results show; numbers unreliable

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