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Paek, Seungoh; Hoffman, Daniel L.; Black, John B. – Educational Technology Research and Development, 2016
The purpose of this study was to examine if student understanding of new material could be promoted by manipulating the perceptual factors experienced at the time of learning. It was hypothesized that the thematic relevance of perceptual factors would be a significant contributor to learner understanding. To test this hypothesis, one hundred…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Grade 1, Grade 2, Multimedia Instruction
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Waller, David; Richardson, Adam R. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied, 2008
The tendency to underestimate egocentric distances in immersive virtual environments (VEs) is not well understood. However, previous research (A. R. Richardson & D. Waller, 2007) has demonstrated that a brief period of interaction with the VE prior to making distance judgments can effectively eliminate subsequent underestimation. Here the authors…
Descriptors: Computation, Standards, Spatial Ability, Adjustment (to Environment)