Drawing benefits depend on knowledge type assessed, with recent meta-analytic evidence contradicting the higher-level-knowledge account¶

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q3 i? A recent meta-analysis found drawing increases factual, inferential, and transfer knowledge, with the largest effect on factual knowledge, contrary to Van Meter and Garner's higher-level account. → 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 that the Cromley et al. (2020) meta-analysis found drawing "capable of increasing factual, inferential, as well as transfer knowledge," and that its largest effect was on factual knowledge, contradicting the expectation that drawing mainly produces higher-level knowledge.

"Interestingly, learning by drawing had the largest effect on factual knowledge in that meta-analysis, contrary to the interpretation of Van Meter and Garner (2005)."

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