Students rate multimedia introductory activities as more instructive, interesting and fun than traditional introductory activities¶

Claim · All claims
Evidence · 1 study · causal r2 · q3
Currency · newest study 2020 · not yet checked against its sources · not reviewed by a person

Subclaims¶

q3 i? Students whose teachers used multimedia in the introductory part rated the activities higher on instructiveness, interestingness and fun than students whose teachers used traditional materials. → Lauc 2020

Evidence¶

Lauc 2020¶

Lauc, T., Jagodić, G. K., & Bistrović, J. (2020). Effects of Multimedia Instructional Message on Motivation and Academic Performance of Elementary School Students in Croatia. International Journal of Instruction, 13(4), 491-508. https://doi.org/10.29333/iji.2020.13431a

q3 · i? · causal · r2

After each of 16 lessons, both groups rated the introductory activity on 5-point Likert scales for instructive, interesting and fun. T-tests on summed ratings showed significant differences favouring the experimental group in both parts of the study (e.g. Instructive 1: t = 3.99, p = .001; Fun 2: t = 4.99, p = .001).

"students whose teachers used instructive media in the introductory part of the lecture found those activities more instructive, more interesting and more fun than students whose teachers used traditional materials"

Discussion¶

Learner Variables¶

• Interest — outcome: instruction changes it

Related Claims¶

• Positive motivational assessments of introductory activities correlate weakly with learning outcomes on near-in-time tests but not with distant exam results — related
• Multimedia introductory activities are rated as more interesting and instructive than fun, while traditional activities are rated similarly on all three features — related
• Multimedia motivational introductory messages produce better immediate knowledge-test outcomes than traditional teaching aids in elementary Nature and Society lessons — related
• Four of six activity groups are rated better in multimedia format, but quizzes and picture descriptions are rated equally across formats — a narrower finding that bears on this claim