Examining the Symbiotic Relationship between Verbal and Visual Literacy in Terms of Facilitating Student Achievement.

Dwyer, Francis M.

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Examining the Symbiotic Relationship between Verbal and Visual Literacy in Terms of Facilitating Student Achievement.

Dwyer, Francis M.

Reading Psychology, v9 n4 p365-80 1988

Argues that the use of visuals specifically designed to complement printed instruction can significantly improve student achievement of certain types of educational objectives, but that visualization itself represents only a mild rehearsal strategy which will not always optimize student achievement of the more complex levels of learning. (RS)

Descriptors: Higher Education, Prior Learning, Reading Research, Schemata (Cognition), Visual Learning, Visual Literacy, Visualization

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