Digital drawing shows mixed results relative to paper-based drawing, with a meta-analysis favoring traditional media for some assessment types¶
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q2 i? Digital environments can aid learning when they let learners implement drawing well, e.g., via easy correction of mistakes. → Dechamps 2025
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Dechamps 2025¶
Dechamps, T., & Skulmowski, A. (2025). The Effective Design of Tasks Involving Learning by Drawing: Current Trends and Methodological Progress in Research on Drawing to Learn. Educational Psychology Review. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10648-025-10026-2
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The review reports, citing Gardner et al. (2021), that "digital graphing environments allowed learners to concentrate more on relevant aspects and to produce larger amounts of self-generated contents compared to graphing on paper," possibly due to capabilities such as an undo function.
"digital graphing environments allowed learners to concentrate more on relevant aspects and to produce larger amounts of self-generated contents compared to graphing on paper"
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Digital drawing shows mixed results relative to paper-based drawing, with a meta-analysis favoring traditional media for some assessment types |
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Digital drawing shows mixed results relative to paper-based drawing, with a meta-analysis favoring traditional media for some assessment types |
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