Weeding extraneous information such as music and complex backgrounds improves retention and transfer from video¶
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q2 i? Eliminating interesting but extraneous information that does not contribute to the learning goal can improve retention and transfer from video. → Brame Cynthia J 2016
Evidence¶
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 Ibrahim et al. (2012), that weeding "can improve retention and transfer of new information from video". Extraneous features force learners to judge whether to attend to them, increasing extraneous load.
"Ibrahim et al. (2012) has shown that this treatment can improve retention and transfer of new information from video."
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Related Claims¶
- 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
- Coherence Principle Irrelevant Material Hurts Learning — possibly the same claim (merge candidate)
- Cognitive Overload Degrades Learning — a broader claim this one bears on
- Interesting but irrelevant details can impair comprehension and transfer, with effects that vary with the material and the learner — possibly the same claim (merge candidate)
- Signaling with on-screen text, color, contrast, or symbols improves retention and transfer from animations and video — related
- On-screen text that duplicates the narration of a diagram can hurt learning, but spoken–written redundancy is not harmful on average and helps over spoken-only presentation in some conditions — related
- Weeding seductive details fostered learning only in a mandatory (high-reward) learning situation, not a voluntary one — related
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Weeding extraneous information such as music and complex backgrounds improves retention and transfer from video |
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Weeding extraneous information such as music and complex backgrounds improves retention and transfer from video |
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