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Download full textCalvert, Sandra L.; Gersh, Tracey L. – 1985
In a study conducted to measure children's visual attention to a television program and relate it to comprehension of content, 64 children equally distributed by sex from kindergarten and fifth grade, were randomly assigned to one of four treatment conditions. These conditions crossed two levels of content cues with two levels of sound effects…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Comprehension, Cues, Elementary Education
PDF pending restorationCalvert, Sandra L.; And Others – 1984
Preplays (critical material presented before a televised program) were inserted before three sections of a televised story to determine if they would improve children's attention and comprehension by providing overall plot structure for selecting and integrating important story events. The preplays varied on two orthogonal dimensions: presence or…
Descriptors: Advance Organizers, Age Differences, Attention, Comprehension
El-Tigi, Manal A.; And Others – 1997
The way information is visually designed and synthesized greatly affects how people understand and use that information. Increased use of the World Wide Web as a teaching tool makes it imperative to question how visual/verbal information presented via the Web can increase or restrict understanding. The purpose of this study was to examine…
Descriptors: Color, Comprehension, Computer Graphics, Design Requirements
