Examining the Influence of Expertise on the Effectiveness of Diagramming and Summarizing When Studying Scientific Materials.pdf (573.05 kB)
Examining the influence of expertise on the effectiveness of diagramming and summarising when studying scientific materials
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posted on 2020-03-31, 13:13 authored by Ouhao Chen, Emmanuel Manalo, Yan SheA 2 (learning strategies: diagram vs. summary) × 2 (levels of expertise: low vs. high) experiment was conducted to compare the effectiveness of using diagrams to writing summaries for students given biological information to learn and who possessed different levels of expertise in that topic area. A main effect of learning strategy used on number of idea units encoded (in diagrams or summaries) was found: drawing diagrams was superior to writing summaries. However, no interaction effect between learning strategies and expertise was found. An examination of students’ subjective ratings of cognitive load revealed that those with low expertise reported higher levels of cognitive load when constructing diagrams. These findings suggest that using diagrams is effective for identifying and encoding important information when learning, but that it would be helpful to provide guidance about diagram use particularly to students who are novices in the topic area to reduce cognitive load.
Funding
The second author’s contribution to this research was supported by a grant-in-aid [grant number 15H01976] received from the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science.
History
School
- Science
Department
- Mathematics Education Centre
Published in
Educational StudiesVolume
45Issue
1Pages
57 - 71Publisher
Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis GroupVersion
- AM (Accepted Manuscript)
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© Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis GroupPublisher statement
This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Educational Studies on 17 October 2017, available online: http://www.tandfonline.com/10.1080/03055698.2017.1390444.Acceptance date
2017-09-16Publication date
2017-10-17Copyright date
2017ISSN
0305-5698eISSN
1465-3400Publisher version
Language
- en