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An Imagination Effect in Learning from Scientific Text
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Leopold, Claudia; Mayer, Richard E. – Journal of Educational Psychology, 2015
Asking students to imagine the spatial arrangement of the elements in a scientific text constitutes a learning strategy intended to foster deep processing of the instructional material. Two experiments investigated the effects of mental imagery prompts on learning from scientific text. Students read a computer-based text on the human respiratory…
Descriptors: Imagination, Scientific and Technical Information, Learning Strategies, Instructional Materials