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Bos, Floris A. B. H.; Terlouw, Cees; Pilot, Albert – Educational Research and Evaluation, 2009
In line with the cognitive theory of multimedia learning by Moreno and Mayer (2007), an interactive, multimodal learning environment was designed for the pretraining of science concepts in the joint area of physics, chemistry, biology, applied mathematics, and computer sciences. In the experimental set up, a pretest was embedded in order to…
Descriptors: Pretests Posttests, Time on Task, Multimedia Instruction, Educational Environment
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Harskamp, Egbert G.; Mayer, Richard E.; Suhre, Cor – Learning and Instruction, 2007
This study demonstrated that the modality principle applies to multimedia learning of regular science lessons in school settings. In the first field experiment, 27 Dutch secondary school students (age 16-17) received a self-paced, web-based multimedia lesson in biology. Students who received lessons containing illustrations and narration performed…
Descriptors: Secondary School Science, Multimedia Instruction, Science Instruction, Biology