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When Learning from Animations Is More Successful than Learning from Static Pictures: Learning the Specifics of Change
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Ploetzner, Rolf; Berney, Sandra; Bétrancourt, Mireille – Instructional Science: An International Journal of the Learning Sciences, 2021
The results of three meta-analyses show that the effectiveness of learning from animations, when compared to learning from static pictures, is rather limited. A recent re-analysis of one of these meta-analyses, however, supports that learning from animations is considerably more effective than learning from static pictures if the specifics of the…
Descriptors: Animation, Pictorial Stimuli, Instructional Effectiveness, Performance Factors
A Comparison of the Responses Made to Visual and to Printed Information by Selected College Students.
Ellison, Joseph Lee – 1974
The purpose of this study was to determine whether there were any differences between the responses made by selected college students to information presented in a visual context and to the same basic information presented in a verbal context. Selected college students were asked to respond to pictorial information and to the same basic…
Descriptors: College Students, Doctoral Dissertations, Educational Research, Memory
Covert and Overt Rehearsal Strategies Used To Complement Visualization.
Dwyer, Carol A.; And Others – 1993
The purpose of the study reported in this paper was to examine the effect of visuals possessing different amounts of realistic detail and the effects of integrating covert and overt rehearsal strategies into visually complemented prose instruction. A total of 128 university students participated in the study, which involved a prose text on the…
Descriptors: College Students, Educational Research, Higher Education, Illustrations
A Multifactor Analysis of the Instructional Effect of Type of Instruction, Testing, Recall and Order of Testing.
De Melo, Hermes Teixeria; Dwyer, Francis M. – 1982
This study investigated the effects of (1) verbal instruction alone vs. verbal instruction complemented by simple line drawings; (2) visual testing vs. nonvisual testing; (3) verbal cueing vs. free recall on achievement; and (4) order of testing on subsequent achievement. Interactions among type of instruction, type of testing, and order of…
Descriptors: College Students, Educational Research, Higher Education, Illustrations
Practical Considerations in Using Visualized Materials in the Instructional Development Process.
Dwyer, Francis M. – 1976
During 12 years of investigation, data were obtained from 2,500 high school students and 10,000 college students concerning the effect of specific types of visualizations in producing optimum levels of achievement. The studies considered such qualities of illustrations as: realism, color, relation to oral presentations, relation to educational…
Descriptors: Achievement Gains, Audiovisual Aids, College Students, Educational Objectives
An Exploratory Study in Maximizing Retention by Utilizing Black/White and Color Coding in Visualized Instruction.
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Lamberski, Richard J. – 1975
To explore the effectiveness of color coding of visual materials in improving student retention, two sets of black/white and color presentations and evaluative measures were developed and tested on 152 students. Instruction was identical in narrative and visual content, with the only variable the use of color in simple line drawings complementing…
Descriptors: Audiovisual Aids, Audiovisual Instruction, College Students, Color