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Leopold, Claudia; Leutner, Detlev – Learning and Instruction, 2012
The purpose of two experiments was to contrast instructions to generate drawings with two text-focused strategies--main idea selection (Exp. 1) and summarization (Exp. 2)--and to examine whether these strategies could help students learn from a chemistry science text. Both experiments followed a 2 x 2 design, with drawing strategy instructions…
Descriptors: Learning Strategies, Reading Comprehension, Freehand Drawing, Textbooks
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Leopold, Claudia; Sumfleth, Elke; Leutner, Detlev – Learning and Instruction, 2013
The purpose of the experiment was to examine whether students better understand a science text when they are asked to self-generate summaries or to study predefined summaries. Furthermore, we tested the effects of verbal and pictorial summaries. The experiment followed a 2 x 2 design with representation mode (verbal vs. pictorial) and learning…
Descriptors: High School Students, Grade 10, Imagery, Transfer of Training