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The Effects of Web-Based Instruction Navigation Modes on Undergraduates' Learning Outcomes
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Hsu, Yu-Chang; Lin, Huifen; Ching, Yu-Hui; Dwyer, Francis M. – Educational Technology & Society, 2009
The purpose of this study was to examine whether matching navigation mode of a learning environment with learners' preferred navigation mode would facilitate their learning in a web environment. Sixty-eight undergraduate students were randomly assigned to treatments (linear vs. nonlinear navigation mode) and received four criterion tests designed…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Instructional Design, Educational Objectives, Web Based Instruction
The Effect of Organizational Chunking and Retrieval Strategies in Facilitating Learning and Recall of Cognitive Learning Tasks.
McBride, Susan D.; Dwyer, Francis M. – 1982
Content organization and its effects on prose learning were the focus of this study. Organizational chunking during the encoding or reading interval with an instructional booklet and batched postquestions during the retrieval period (including all events between initial learning and the retention test) were used with 112 university students to…
Descriptors: College Students, Efficiency, Higher Education, Instructional Design
Practical Considerations in Using Visualized Materials in the Instructional Development Process.
Dwyer, Francis M. – 1976
During 12 years of investigation, data were obtained from 2,500 high school students and 10,000 college students concerning the effect of specific types of visualizations in producing optimum levels of achievement. The studies considered such qualities of illustrations as: realism, color, relation to oral presentations, relation to educational…
Descriptors: Achievement Gains, Audiovisual Aids, College Students, Educational Objectives
The Effect of Visualized Instruction and Varied Rehearsal and Evaluation Strategies (Verbal and Visual) in Facilitating Students' Long-Term Retention on Tests Measuring Different Instructional Objectives.
Dwyer, Francis M. – Journal of Visual/Verbal Languaging, 1985
This study investigated effects of rehearsal strategies and immediate test formats on delayed retention and effectiveness of visualization on material acquisition and retrieval. Findings indicate different rehearsal methods have different effects in facilitating delayed retention. Information acquisition is facilitated by visualization, although…
Descriptors: Behavioral Objectives, Criterion Referenced Tests, Epistemology, Higher Education