Guide students through Select-Organize-Integrate steps with an application's multiple document functions before the task¶

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Evidence · 4 claims (3 for, 1 against) · 1 study (1 causal), q3 · 1 of 1 report an effect size · 4 claims rest on one study

Description¶

A concrete procedure the article implemented for strategy guidance in a tablet-based multiple document task. Before starting, students were instructed to "access documents and highlight important information in each document during reading, select and extract task-relevant information in each document and move it to the workspace, and organize and integrate extracted information in the workspace by comparing and contrasting information across documents". A cue card reminding them of the steps was available throughout the task, after a training task on another topic using a checklist of all application functions.

Design Implications¶

Context¶

Requirements¶

• The application must provide functions for simultaneous document access, highlighting, extraction to a workspace, and spatial organization
• Guidance targeting all three SOI processes must be given before the task, with a reminder cue available during the task

Constraints¶

• The procedure was implemented and tested with undergraduates on one socio-scientific issue; it targeted step three processes of the MD-TRACE model

Target Learners¶

• undergraduate students working with multiple documents

Target Learning Goals¶

• selecting, organizing, and integrating information across multiple documents

Affordances¶

• Soi Model Meaningful Learning

Claims¶

• Guided LiquidText users redistribute task time toward document processing and away from writing [+W]
• Students guided to use LiquidText show lower acceptance of tablets for multiple document work than controls despite better performance [-W]
• Guided use of a multiple document reading application yields higher multiple document comprehension than access-only, unguided, or traditional pdf viewer use [+W]
• Unaided access to multiple document reading functions alone does not improve comprehension over a traditional pdf viewer [+W]

Related Strategies¶

• Liquidtext Multiple Document App Element

Examples¶

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Key Sources¶

• Jordan Lombard, Ivar Bråten, Cécile van de Leemput, Franck Amadieu. (2021). Performance and acceptance when using tablets as a multiple document learning tool: do application and guidance matter? Instructional Science. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11251-021-09537-6