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Revising the Redundancy Principle in Multimedia Learning
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Mayer, Richard E.; Johnson, Cheryl I. – Journal of Educational Psychology, 2008
College students viewed a short multimedia PowerPoint presentation consisting of 16 narrated slides explaining lightning formation (Experiment 1) or 8 narrated slides explaining how a car's braking system works (Experiment 2). Each slide appeared for approximately 8-10 s and contained a diagram along with 1-2 sentences of narration spoken in a…
Descriptors: Multimedia Instruction, Epistemology, College Students, Multimedia Materials
Learning by Doing versus Learning by Viewing: Three Experimental Comparisons of Learner-Generated versus Author-Provided Graphic Organizers
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Stull, Andrew T.; Mayer, Richard E. – Journal of Educational Psychology, 2007
Do students learn more deeply from a passage when they attempt to construct their own graphic organizers (i.e., learning by doing) than when graphic organizers are provided (i.e., learning by viewing)? In 3 experiments, learners were tested on retention and transfer after reading a passage with author-provided graphic organizers or when asked to…
Descriptors: Reading Strategies, Experiential Learning, Instructional Materials, Educational Psychology
Verbal Redundancy in Multimedia Learning: When Reading Helps Listening.
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Moreno, Roxana; Mayer, Richard E. – Journal of Educational Psychology, 2002
Three studies investigated whether and under what conditions the addition of on-screen text would facilitate the learning of a narrated scientific multimedia explanation. The overall pattern of results can be explained by a dual-processing model of working memory, which has implications for the design of multimedia instruction. (Author)
Descriptors: Aptitude Treatment Interaction, Instructional Effectiveness, Intermode Differences, Learning Processes
Differences in Breadth of Transfer Due to Advance Organizers and Subject Control of Frame Sequencing.
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Mayer, Richard E. – 1976
Eighty college students with no computer programing experience were the subjects of a study to determine the effects of the use of advanced organizers and subject control of instruction on performance. Students either received a logical or a scrambled sequence of instructional frames on computer programing, were either allowed to alter the order…
Descriptors: Advance Organizers, College Students, Computer Science Education, Educational Research