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Holliday, William G. – 1979
Modern educational theory suggests that the learning of a visual science concept is best taught using a combination of pictorial and verbal instruction describing these characteristics and examples and best evaluated using words and visuals not used during instruction. Recent research suggests a four-step instructional-testing model usable by…
Descriptors: Educational Research, Educational Theories, Elementary Education, Elementary School Science
When Less Is More: Meaningful Learning from Visual and Verbal Summaries of Science Textbook Lessons.
Peer reviewedMayer, Richard E.; And Others – Journal of Educational Psychology, 1996
In 3 experiments, 163 college students who read a summary with a sequence of short captions with simple illustrations depicting steps in a process recalled the steps and solved transfer problems as well as or better than students who received the full text with a summary or alone. (SLD)
Descriptors: College Students, Higher Education, Instructional Materials, Learning
