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Peer reviewedMayer, Richard E.; And Others – Educational Technology Research and Development, 1995
Explains a generative theory of textbook design and describes three experiments that compared college students' solutions on transfer problems after reading science texts with illustrations adjacent to corresponding text and including annotations, and illustrations separated from text without annotations. (LRW)
Descriptors: Abstracts, College Science, Comparative Analysis, Higher Education
Peer reviewedRankin, Robert O. – Educational Technology Research and Development, 1989
Describes a method for isolating factors that influence the ability of a reader to comprehend the message of an illustration, and explains a model that is constructed from these factors to highlight potential problem stages in an author's design of an illustration. The model is based on data from comprehension trials with college students. (17…
Descriptors: Communication (Thought Transfer), Comprehension, Flow Charts, Higher Education
