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Megan N. Imundo; Rui Ling Rachel Sanchez; Bianca Gonzalez; Rebecca M. Adler; Elizabeth Ligon Bjork – Applied Cognitive Psychology, 2025
The COVID-19 pandemic produced a unique opportunity to examine undergraduate students' notetaking practices for online courses. In this large survey study (n = 584), we examined how students' notetaking changed from before to during emergency online instruction and how students used their notes during this time. Our findings suggest that students…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Notetaking, Online Courses
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Soares, Julia S.; Storm, Benjamin C. – Applied Cognitive Psychology, 2020
Fidget spinners have experienced a rapid rise in popularity, at least partially because they are marketed as attentional aides with the potential to enhance student learning. In the current study, college-aged students watched educational videos while either using a fidget spinner or not. Using a fidget spinner was associated with increased…
Descriptors: Object Manipulation, College Students, Video Technology, Attention
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Fiorella, Logan – Applied Cognitive Psychology, 2022
Explaining after pauses in a video lecture can be an effective learning activity, yet students need support to generate comprehensive explanations. This study tested whether providing students access to the visualizations from the video enhances explanation comprehensiveness and transfer performance. Undergraduates (n = 112) watched a 5-part…
Descriptors: Learning Processes, Learning, Lecture Method, Video Technology
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Ebersbach, Mirjam; Feierabend, Maike; Nazari, Katharina Barzagar B. – Applied Cognitive Psychology, 2020
We compared the long-term effects of generating questions by learners with answering questions (i.e., testing) and restudying in the context of a university lecture. In contrast to previous studies, students were not prepared for the learning strategies, learning content was experimentally controlled, and effects on factual and transfer knowledge…
Descriptors: Long Term Memory, Recall (Psychology), Testing, Review (Reexamination)