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Sanchez, Emilio; Garcia-Rodicio, Hector – Learning and Instruction, 2013
The goal of the present study was to examine the mechanisms underlying a strategy that we developed to make instructional explanations effective. In two experiments participants learned about plate tectonics from a multimedia material, including adjunct explanations that revised common misunderstandings. These explanations were either marked…
Descriptors: Web Based Instruction, Computer Assisted Instruction, Multimedia Materials, Protocol Analysis
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Veenman, Marcel V. J.; Elshout, Jan J. – Learning and Instruction, 1991
Fourteen high-intelligence and 13 low-intelligence first-year college students worked in a structured or unstructured simulation environment to learn correlational principles. Thinking-aloud protocols indicate that high-intelligence subjects exhibit a better working method than do low-intelligence subjects, and that working method is a strong…
Descriptors: College Freshmen, Comparative Analysis, Correlation, Foreign Countries