Voice-based multimedia settings (animation+voice and picture+voice) produce better learning performance than picture+text¶

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Evidence · 1 study · causal r2 · q2
Currency · newest study 2007 · not yet checked against its sources · not reviewed by a person

Subclaims¶

q2 i? Both the animation+voice and picture+voice settings resulted in better overall learning performance than the picture+text setting, which carried double load on the visual channel. → Guttormsen Schär 2007

q2 i? Settings combining visual and auditory information produced better visual knowledge than picture+text, which loaded two visual sources onto one channel, supporting the expected negative effect of information channel overload. → Guttormsen Schär 2007

Evidence¶

Guttormsen Schär 2007¶

Guttormsen Schär, S., & Zimmermann, P. G. (2007). Investigating Means to Reduce Cognitive Load from Animations: Applying Differentiated Measures of Knowledge Representation. Journal of Research on Technology in Education, 40(1), 64–78. https://eric.ed.gov/?id=EJ826063 doi:10.1080/15391523.2007.10782497

q2 · i? · causal · r2

Experiment with 36 adults randomly assigned to animation+voice (AV), picture+voice (PV) or picture+text (PT), learning a human immunology process for 15 minutes before eight computerised knowledge tests. Results state "both the multimedia settings AV and PV resulted in better learning performance than PT"; Table 3 reports Mann-Whitney comparisons AV > PT (p = 0.004) and PV > PT (p = 0.004).

"As the table shows, both the multimedia settings AV and PV resulted in better learning performance than PT . There were no significant differences between the groups for media preference."

Discussion¶

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