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McTigue, Erin M. – Contemporary Educational Psychology, 2009
The purpose of this study is to translate principles of multimedia learning from college-age readers to middle grade students, when reading science texts with a supporting diagram. In this experimental study, sixth-grade students (n = 180) were randomly assigned to display conditions before reading. Each student read two explanatory sciences…
Descriptors: Educational Principles, Learning Theories, Comparative Analysis, College Students
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Raman, Lakshmi; Winer, Gerald A. – British Journal of Developmental Psychology, 2004
Three studies investigated developmental changes in immanent justice responding by asking participants to respond to vignettes in which a person's bad behaviour was followed by a negative consequence. Study 1 consisted of 152 sixth graders and 128 college students and presented participants with a vignette that examined the notion of bad people…
Descriptors: Justice, Responses, Age Differences, Individual Development