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Effects of Adding Illustrations to Texts on Students' Science Achievement: A Meta-Analysis
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Hao Lei; Libing Chen; Ming Ming Chiu; Longyue Fang; Yuxin Ding – Educational Psychology Review, 2025
Adding illustrations to texts might improve students' science achievement. This meta-analysis of 121 effect sizes from 63 studies of 7,621 students across five decades determines both the overall effect and moderators that account for differences across studies. Our random-effects model shows a positive effect of adding illustrations to texts on…
Descriptors: Illustrations, Textbooks, Science Achievement, Effect Size
Using Graph-Colouring to Organise Multi-Version Assessments
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Jonathan Hoseana; Andy Leonardo Louismono; Oriza Stepanus – International Journal of Mathematical Education in Science and Technology, 2025
We describe and evaluate a method to mitigate unwanted student collaborations in assessments, which we recently implemented in a second-year undergraduate mathematics module. The method requires a list of specific pairs of students to be prevented from collaborating, which we constructed based on the results of previous assessments. We converted…
Descriptors: Graphs, Color, College Mathematics, Undergraduate Students
Memory-Context Effects of Screen Color in Multiple-Choice and Fill-In Tests
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Prestera, Gustavo E.; Clariana, Roy; Peck, Andrew – Journal of Educational Multimedia and Hypermedia, 2005
In this experimental study, 44 undergraduates completed five computer-based instructional lessons and either two multiplechoice tests or two fill-in-the-blank tests. Color-coded borders were displayed during the lesson, adjacent to the screen text and illustrations. In the experimental condition, corresponding border colors were shown at posttest.…
Descriptors: Experimental Groups, Computer Assisted Instruction, Instructional Effectiveness, Multiple Choice Tests
Effects of Noninformational Color on the Reading Test Performance of Students with and without Attentional Deficits.
Zentall, Sydney S.; Grskovic, Janice A.; Javorsky, James; Hall, Arlene M. – Diagnostique, 2000
A study involving 25 students (grades 3-5) with and without attentional deficits assessed generality to a standardized reading test when noninformational color was added to one of two alternate forms. Students with attentional deficits read as accurately as their classmates with color added and read worse in the black-white condition. (Contains…
Descriptors: Academic Accommodations (Disabilities), Attention Deficit Disorders, Color, Contrast
The Instructional Effects of Matching or Mismatching Lesson and Posttest Screen Color
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Clariana, Roy B. – International Journal of Instructional Media, 2004
This investigation considers the instructional effects of color as an over-arching context variable when learning from computer displays. The purpose of this investigation is to examine the posttest retrieval effects of color as a local, extra-item non-verbal lesson context variable for constructed-response versus multiple-choice posttest…
Descriptors: Instructional Effectiveness, Graduate Students, Color, Computer System Design
Affective Cues and Processing Strategy: Color-Coded Examination Forms Influence Performance.
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Sinclair, Robert C.; Soldat, Alexander S.; Mark, Melvin M. – Teaching of Psychology, 1998
Argues that external cues provide affective information that influence processing strategy and, therefore, examination performance. Notes the differences in performance for two midterm examinations, identical, except that they were printed on blue and red paper. Discusses a method for appropriately adjusting scores to control for form effects.…
Descriptors: Cognitive Psychology, Color, Cues, Dimensional Preference