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Verena Ruf; Yavuz Dinc; Stefan Küchemann; Markus Berndt; Steffen Steinert; Daniela Kugelmann; Jonathan Bortfeldt; Jörg Schreiber; Martin R. Fischer; Jochen Kuhn – Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2024
Graphical representations of data are common in many disciplines. Previous research has found that physics students appear to have better graph comprehension skills than students from social science disciplines, regardless of the task context. However, the graph comprehension skills of physics students have not yet been compared with (veterinary)…
Descriptors: Artificial Intelligence, Graphs, Comprehension, College Freshmen
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Magner, Ulrike Irmgard Elisabeth; Glogger, Inga; Renkl, Alexander – Educational Psychology, 2016
How can illustrations motivate learners in multimedia learning? Which features make illustrations interesting? Beside the theoretical relevance of addressing these questions, these issues are practically relevant when instructional designers are to decide which features of illustrations can trigger situational interest irrespective of individual…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Illustrations, Multimedia Materials, Multimedia Instruction
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Mani, Nivedita; Huettig, Falk – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 2012
Are there individual differences in children's prediction of upcoming linguistic input and what do these differences reflect? Using a variant of the preferential looking paradigm (Golinkoff, Hirsh-Pasek, Cauley, & Gordon, 1987), we found that, upon hearing a sentence like, "The boy eats a big cake," 2-year-olds fixate edible objects…
Descriptors: Comprehension, Language Processing, Evidence, Form Classes (Languages)