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Improving Learning-by-Teaching without Audience Interaction as a Generative Learning Activity by Minimizing the Social Presence of the Audience
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Wang, Fuxing; Cheng, Meixia; Mayer, Richard E. – Journal of Educational Psychology, 2023
Learning-by-teaching is a generative learning strategy in which students are asked to teach what they are learning to others (Fiorella & Mayer, 2015). In this study, college students watched a multimedia lesson on chemical synaptic transmission with instructions that afterward they would explain the materials by making a lecture video…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Interaction, Learning Activities, Social Behavior
Broader Transfer Produced by Guided Discovery of Number Concepts with Preschool Children
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Solter, Aletha; Mayer, Richard E. – Journal of Educational Psychology, 1978
Forty-three preschoolers learned the concept of one-to-one correspondence by matched discovery, expository, or observational learning. The groups did not differ on short-term recall and near transfer, but the discovery group excelled on far transfer and delayed recall. The effect of guided discovery on broader learning outcomes was also discussed.…
Descriptors: Concept Formation, Conservation (Concept), Discovery Learning, Learning Activities
Note Taking as a Generative Activity.
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Peper, Richard J.; Mayer, Richard E. – Journal of Educational Psychology, 1978
Three experiments investigated the effects of note taking on "what is learned" by college undergraduates from videotaped lectures. The results suggest that note taking can result in a broader learning outcome, rather than just more learning overall, because an assimilative encoding process is encouraged. (Author/GDC)
Descriptors: Academic Ability, Concept Formation, Higher Education, Learning Activities