Children are exposed to symbolic media, such as printed or electronic pictures. The purpose of this research was to compare children's learning of a concept (camouflage) with two different picture-book formats. Forty four-year-olds were assigned to two conditions: learning with a printed book or with an e-book. Instruction and book contents were…

This study aims to contribute to empirical and interdisciplinary knowledge on how visual learning analytics tools can support students' cognitive engagement in complex in-class scenarios. Taking a holistic approach, instructional design, learning analytics, and students' perceptions were examined together. The teaching of systematic viewing and…

This study examined how toddlers gain insights from source video displays and use the insights to solve analogous problems. Two- to 2.5-year-olds viewed a source video illustrating a problem-solving strategy and then attempted to solve analogous problems. Older but not younger toddlers extracted the problem-solving strategy depicted in the video…

This paper examines the transferability of successful cueing approaches from text and static visualization research to animations. Theories of visual attention and learning as well as empirical evidence for the instructional effectiveness of attention cueing are reviewed and, based on Mayer's theory of multimedia learning, a framework was…

Among 294 children of three to eight years, tactual oddity learning increased gradually with age. The finding of bidirectional cross-modal transfer of oddity learning supported the suggestion that such transfer occurs when training and transfer oddity tasks share a common vehicle dimension. Results are considered consistent with the view that…

Four severely retarded and four nonretarded adolescents learned compound discriminations in the haptic (touch) modality using D. Ray's conflict-compound procedure. Subjects evinced selective attention effects in posttraining tests conducted in the haptic modality. Visual transfer tests revealed the effects of conflict-compound discrimination…

Compared lexical and visual--orthographic processing in the spelling performance of 30 cantonese Chinese children who are English-as-a-Second-Language (ESL) learners to that of 33 English as a first language (L1) children. Findings are discussed in terms of in terms of early transfer of L1 literacy skills to second language literacy acquisition…

In 3 experiments, 163 college students who read a summary with a sequence of short captions with simple illustrations depicting steps in a process recalled the steps and solved transfer problems as well as or better than students who received the full text with a summary or alone. (SLD)

When learning-disabled high school students (N=22) were taught about astronomy by either presenting key concepts with a visual spatial display or by presenting concepts with texts, tests measuring short-term mastery of content favored students taught with the visual display. No differences were found between the groups on transfer or maintenance.…

Visualized braille was presented on closed circuit television (CCTV) to six blind tactile braille reading subjects (ages 12-50). Results supported cross-modal transfer of learning from tactile to visual modality. After intensive visual training, these subjects could discriminate visual forms and read ordinary print using the CCTV. (Author/BS)