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Comprehension and Navigation of Networked Hypertexts
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Blom, Helen; Segers, Eliane; Knoors, Harry; Hermans, Daan; Verhoeven, Ludo – Journal of Computer Assisted Learning, 2018
This study aims to investigate secondary school students' reading comprehension and navigation of networked hypertexts with and without a graphic overview compared to linear digital texts. Additionally, it was studied whether prior knowledge, vocabulary, verbal, and visual working memory moderated the relation between text design and…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Navigation (Information Systems), Computer Networks, Hypermedia
On the Effectiveness of Highlighting Ads in Telephone Directories by Color.
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Wendt, Dirk; Groggel, Wiebke; Gutschmidt, Georg – Visible Language, 1997
Presents a study in which ads in simulated telephone directory pages were highlighted in red, green, and blue colors. States that the pages were presented to subjects in order to be recalled and recognized among other ads. Finds that red and green highlighting increases recallability and recognizability whereas blue decreases it. (PA)
Descriptors: Advertising, Color, Communication Research, Recall (Psychology)
The Coherence of Visual Narratives.
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Kraft, Robert N.; And Others – Communication Research, 1991
Examines memory for visual narratives as a function of cinematic structure. Identifies two important principles (establishing shots and directional continuity) for restructuring real-world activities into coherent filmed sequences. (SR)
Descriptors: Film Production, Films, Higher Education, Media Research
CRT Text Layout: Perceptions of Viewers.
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Grabinger, R. Scott; Amedeo, Douglas – Computers in Human Behavior, 1988
Discussion of screen layout design for computer assisted instruction focuses on the perceptions of the viewers. Combinations of text format design variables that facilitate specific learning processes are investigated; evaluative criteria for text displays are discussed; individual and group perceptions are analyzed; and future research topics are…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Correlation, Evaluation Criteria, Factor Analysis
Age Changes in the Missing-Letter Effect Reflect the Reader's Growing Ability to Extract the Structure from Text.
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Greenberg, Seth N.; Koriat, Asher; Vellutino, Frank R. – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 1998
Examined age differences in the missing-letter effect during letter-detection tasks. Found expected increase in magnitude with age of the effect even when function words and content words were equated for frequency. Word scrambling improved letter detection in function words compared to content words among older subjects, arguing against increased…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Children, College Students, Cross Sectional Studies
A Proposed Model for the Systematic Design of Instructional Pictures.
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Wiesenberg, Faye; Baine, David – Canadian Journal of Educational Communication, 1994
Describes a systematic method for producing pictures to accompany textual instructional materials. The resulting instructional design model is then used in an attribute by treatment interaction study of post-secondary school students that was designed to investigate the role of analogical pictures in adult learners' acquisition of higher level…
Descriptors: Adult Learning, Adult Students, Analysis of Covariance, Hypothesis Testing
The Effects of Computer Usage on Computer Screen Reading Rate.
Clausing, Carolyn S.; Schmitt, Dorren Rafael – 1989
This study investigated the differences in the reading rate of eighth grade students on a cloze reading exercise involving the reading of text from a computer monitor. Several different modes of presentation were used in order to determine the effect of prior experience with computers on the students' reading rate. Subjects were 240 eighth grade…
Descriptors: Analysis of Variance, Cloze Procedure, Computer Assisted Instruction, Correlation