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Sweller, John – Educational Technology Research and Development, 2020
Cognitive load theory provides instructional recommendations based on our knowledge of human cognition. Evolutionary psychology is used to assume that knowledge should be divided into biologically primary information that we have specifically evolved to acquire and biologically secondary information that we have not specifically evolved to…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Difficulty Level, Educational Technology, Epistemology
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Darabi, Aubteen; Arrington, Thomas Logan; Sayilir, Erkan – Educational Technology Research and Development, 2018
The authors searched five scholarly databases for a decade of research publications examining learning from failure as an instructional strategy. Out of 187 publications, 62 were found to be relevant to the topic from which only 12 used experimental design to examine the issue and reported statistics appropriate for meta-analysis. The studies also…
Descriptors: Academic Failure, Meta Analysis, Teaching Methods, Learning Processes
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van der Molen, Juliette H. Walma; van der Voort, Tom H. A. – Educational Technology Research and Development, 1998
A sample of 144 fourth and sixth graders was presented with five children's news stories, in television form or in one of three print versions. Results indicated that children who watched news on television remembered the stories better than children who read one of the three print versions, regardless of their level of reading proficiency.…
Descriptors: Audience Response, Children, Educational Television, Elementary School Students