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Instruction, Example Order, and Student Learning: Reducing Extraneous Cognitive Load by Providing Structure for Elaborated Examples
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Bolkan, San; Goodboy, Alan K. – Communication Education, 2020
This experiment examined learning differences between students who read instructional examples that varied in the order that information was presented. In an online lesson about advice giving, 275 students were randomly assigned to a learning condition where the order of instructional information moved either from (a) concrete examples to abstract…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Difficulty Level, Demonstrations (Educational), Sequential Approach
The Effects of Heuristics and Cognitive Biases on Teacher Hiring Practices in Mississippi Schools
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Nalls, Tommy Lee, Jr. – ProQuest LLC, 2019
Productive hiring practices can increase the opportunity that every student will be taught by an effective teacher. Integrity of hiring practices is sacrificed when decision-making models, methods, and protocols fall short due to improper implementation. To compensate for the lack of information generated from poor hiring resources and protocols,…
Descriptors: Teacher Selection, Comparative Analysis, Heuristics, Decision Making
Examples and the Facilitation of Student Learning: Should Instructors Provide Examples or Should Students Generate Their Own?
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Bolkan, San; Goodboy, Alan K. – Communication Education, 2019
This study examined learning differences for students who were given instructor-provided examples during a lesson compared with student-generated examples. In an experiment, 348 students were exposed to an online lesson about fear appeals and were randomly assigned to either a condition where (a) examples of key concepts were provided by the…
Descriptors: Models, Concept Formation, Individual Differences, Student Role
Children Show Selective Trust in Technological Informants
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Danovitch, Judith H.; Alzahabi, Reem – Journal of Cognition and Development, 2013
Although children are often exposed to technological devices early in life, little is known about how they evaluate these novel sources of information. In two experiments, children aged 3, 4, and 5 years old ("n" = 92) were presented with accurate and inaccurate computer informants, and they subsequently relied on information provided by…
Descriptors: Toddlers, Young Children, Information Sources, Preferences
Measuring Reading Comprehension of Content Area Texts Using an Assessment of Knowledge Organization
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Davis, Marcia H.; Guthrie, John T. – Journal of Educational Research, 2015
The authors outline results of 3 studies conducted to examine the structure of disciplinary knowledge from reading measured through proximity data. In Study 1, 168 third-grade students were asked to read a science text and rate the relationships of keywords from the passage. From these ratings, comprehension scores were calculated that related…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Content Area Reading, Knowledge Level, Grade 3
Rugby versus Soccer in South Africa: Content Familiarity Contributes to Cross-Cultural Differences in Cognitive Test Scores
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Malda, Maike; van de Vijver, Fons J. R.; Temane, Q. Michael – Intelligence, 2010
In this study, cross-cultural differences in cognitive test scores are hypothesized to depend on a test's cultural complexity (Cultural Complexity Hypothesis: CCH), here conceptualized as its content familiarity, rather than on its cognitive complexity (Spearman's Hypothesis: SH). The content familiarity of tests assessing short-term memory,…
Descriptors: Short Term Memory, Foreign Countries, Cultural Differences, Intelligence Tests