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Cook, Michelle; Visser, Ryan – Journal of Educational Multimedia and Hypermedia, 2014
Multimedia presentations that combine visual and verbal information are widely used for instructional purposes. While the design of the text-graphic relationship is difficult, several design strategies with the potential to reduce cognitive load have been identified in the literature. The purpose of this study is to examine how split-attention,…
Descriptors: Multimedia Instruction, Attention, Prompting, Prior Learning
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Cook, Michelle; Carter, Glenda; Wiebe, Eric N. – International Journal of Science Education, 2008
The purpose of this study was to examine how prior knowledge of cellular transport influenced how high school students in the USA viewed and interpreted graphic representations of this topic. The participants were Advanced Placement Biology students (n = 65); each participant had previously taken a biology course in high school. After assessing…
Descriptors: Instructional Design, Advanced Placement, Prior Learning, Biology