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Rosenberg-Kima, Rinat B.; Merrill, M. David; Baylor, Amy L.; Johnson, Tristan E. – Educational Technology Research and Development, 2022
Novice programmers, who have yet to form effective mental models of the domain, often experience high cognitive load, low confidence, and high anxiety, negatively affecting learning and retention rates. These cognitive and affective limitations pose an instructional challenge. This study aimed to investigate the effectiveness of a whole-task…
Descriptors: Computer Science Education, Instructional Effectiveness, Novices, Programming
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Lin, Kuo-Chin; Wei, Chun-Wang; Lai, Chiu-Lin; Cheng, I-Ling; Chen, Nian-Shing – Educational Technology Research and Development, 2021
The aim of this study was to develop a badminton teaching system using the wearable technology for improving badminton teaching and learning. This system can provide the similarity scores automatically by comparing a student's movement and strength while playing badminton with a well-trained expert model. A quasi-experiment was conducted for eight…
Descriptors: Physical Education, Racquet Sports, Measurement Equipment, Instructional Effectiveness
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Chiu, Thomas K. F.; Jong, Morris Siu-yung; Mok, Ida A. C. – Educational Technology Research and Development, 2020
Recent research on multimedia learning has considered the integration of cognitive and affective aspects of media processing. The literature suggests that learners' emotions influence the effectiveness of multimedia learning, which is explained by the cognitive-affective theory of learning with media (CATLM). A multimedia design that changes…
Descriptors: Expertise, Novices, Emotional Response, Multimedia Instruction
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Hatsidimitris, George; Kalyuga, Slava – Educational Technology Research and Development, 2013
Learning with instructional animations may overstretch limited working memory resources due to intense processing demands associated with transient information. The authors investigated whether explicit instructional advice coupled with a task-specific learner control mechanism (such as a timeline scrollbar) could facilitate the successful…
Descriptors: Animation, Computer Assisted Instruction, Prior Learning, Learner Controlled Instruction