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Castro-Alonso, Juan C.; Wong, Rachel M.; Adesope, Olusola O.; Paas, Fred – Educational Psychology Review, 2021
Multimedia pedagogical agents are on-screen characters that allow users to navigate or learn in multimedia environments. Several agents' characteristics may moderate their instructional effectiveness, including appearance, gender, nonverbal communication, motion, and voice. Here, we conducted a meta-analysis to test hypotheses from diverse…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Multimedia Instruction, Meta Analysis, Instructional Effectiveness
Verhoeven, Ludo; Schnotz, Wolfgang; Paas, Fred – Learning and Instruction, 2009
The focus of this special issue is on the cognitive load underlying processes of interactive knowledge construction in a wide range of instructional multimedia platforms. Multimedia comprehension involves the parallel processing of auditory-verbal and visual-pictorial channels within working memory. By means of integrating multimodal information,…
Descriptors: Prior Learning, Perspective Taking, Short Term Memory, Cognitive Processes
Darabi, A. Aubteen; Nelson, David W.; Paas, Fred – Journal of Research on Technology in Education, 2007
This study presents an application of a measure of learner involvement developed by Paas, Tuovinen, van Merrienboer, and Darabi (2005). These authors combined learners' performance scores with their perceived mental effort invested in instruction and used it to assess learner involvement in instructional conditions. The present study examines the…
Descriptors: Learner Engagement, Educational Strategies, Problem Solving, Instructional Effectiveness