Material-oriented interventions such as complexity reduction, cueing/signaling, and text-picture integration are empirically tested support procedures for visual displays¶

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Subclaims¶

q2 i? Reducing visual displays' complexity, cueing/signaling, and physically integrating text and pictures are examples of material-oriented interventions whose effectiveness the review examines. → Renkl 2017

Evidence¶

Renkl 2017¶

Renkl, A., & Scheiter, K. (2017). Studying Visual Displays: How to Instructionally Support Learning. Educational Psychology Review. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10648-015-9340-4

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The review presents these as examples of material-oriented interventions within its overview of "empirically tested support procedures and the evidence about their effectiveness." The abstract states the category and examples without printing effect sizes.

"Material-oriented interventions are, for example, reducing the visual displays' complexity, cueing/signaling, or physically integrating text and pictures."

Discussion¶

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