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Schwamborn, Annett; Mayer, Richard E.; Thillmann, Hubertina; Leopold, Claudia; Leutner, Detlev – Journal of Educational Psychology, 2010
In this study, 9th-grade students (N = 196) with a mean age of 14.7 years read a scientific text explaining the chemical process of doing laundry with soap and water and then took 3 tests. Students who were instructed to generate drawings during learning scored higher than students who only read on subsequent tests of transfer (d = 0.91),…
Descriptors: Freehand Drawing, Grade 9, Adolescents, Reading Comprehension
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Craven, Rhonda G.; Marsh, Herbert W.; Debus, Raymond L.; Jayasinghe, Upali – Journal of Educational Psychology, 2001
Within-class experimental designs are subject to diffusion effects whereby both experimental and control students benefit from the intervention, thereby contaminating the control group and biasing evaluations of intervention effects. In support of diffusion effects, this study showed that a classroom intervention resulted in higher academic…
Descriptors: Aptitude Treatment Interaction, Class Activities, Classroom Environment, Classroom Techniques