The impact of animation interactivity on novices' learning of introductory statistics

Computers and Education

Volumn 56, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 300-311

  Wang, Pei Yu ^a   Vaughn, Brandon K ^b   Liu, Min ^c  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b Everest College   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

Animation interactivity; Interactive animation; Statistics learning

Indexed keywords

ANIMATION PROGRAMS; COGNITIVE SKILL; COLLEGE STUDENTS; COMPUTER LAB; CONTROL GROUPS; FOUR-GROUP; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; INDEPENDENT VARIABLES; INTERACTIVE ANIMATIONS; INTERACTIVE LEARNING; INTERACTIVITY; MULTI VARIATE ANALYSIS; MULTIMEDIA DESIGN PRINCIPLES; ONLINE SURVEYS; P-VALUES; STATISTICS LEARNING; SUBJECT MATTERS; TYPE II ERROR; TYPE-I ERROR; UNIVARIATE ANALYSIS; WEB LOG DATA;

CURRICULA; DESIGN; LEARNING SYSTEMS; MULTIMEDIA SYSTEMS; MULTIVARIANT ANALYSIS; STATISTICS; STUDENTS; TEACHING;

ANIMATION;

EID: 77958004178     PISSN: 03601315     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.compedu.2010.07.011     Document Type: Article

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