Signaling with on-screen text, color, contrast, or symbols improves retention and transfer from animations and video¶
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q2 i? Signaling improves students' ability to retain and transfer new knowledge from animations, with effects extending to video. → Brame Cynthia J 2016
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Brame Cynthia J 2016¶
Brame Cynthia J. (2016). Effective Educational Videos: Principles and Guidelines for Maximizing Student Learning from Video Content. CBE—Life Sciences Education. https://doi.org/10.1187/cbe.16-03-0125
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The essay reports, citing Mayer and Moreno (2003), deKoning et al. (2009), and Ibrahim et al. (2012), that signaling "improves students’ ability to retain and transfer new knowledge". Signaling directs learner attention and can reduce extraneous load while increasing germane load.
"Mayer and Moreno (2003) and deKoning et al. (2009) have shown that this approach improves students’ ability to retain and transfer new knowledge from animations, and Ibrahim et al. (2012) have shown that these effects extend to video."
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Related Claims¶
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Segmenting video into short pieces or click-forward pauses supports student engagement and learning from video — the general claim this finding bears on, with the studies behind it
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Signaling Improves Learning — the general claim this finding bears on, with the studies behind it
- Matching modality by conveying complementary information through auditory and visual channels increases retention, transfer, and engagement — related
- Spoken text modality does not significantly differ from signaled written text modality, or from signaled written plus spoken text, for either abstract or concrete animation — related
- In a multimedia animation, participants focused more on signalled objects and detected fewer changes in other screen areas — related
- Weeding extraneous information such as music and complex backgrounds improves retention and transfer from video — related
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Signaling with on-screen text, color, contrast, or symbols improves retention and transfer from animations and video |
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Signaling with on-screen text, color, contrast, or symbols improves retention and transfer from animations and video |
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