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Instruction, Example Order, and Student Learning: Reducing Extraneous Cognitive Load by Providing Structure for Elaborated Examples
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Bolkan, San; Goodboy, Alan K. – Communication Education, 2020
This experiment examined learning differences between students who read instructional examples that varied in the order that information was presented. In an online lesson about advice giving, 275 students were randomly assigned to a learning condition where the order of instructional information moved either from (a) concrete examples to abstract…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Difficulty Level, Demonstrations (Educational), Sequential Approach