Extending multimedia research: How do prerequisite knowledge and reading comprehension affect learning from text and pictures

Computers in Human Behavior

Volumn 31, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 73-84

  Scheiter, Katharina ^a   Schüler, Anne ^a   Gerjets, Peter ^a   Huk, Thomas ^b   Hesse, Friedrich W ^a  

^a KNOWLEDGE MEDIA RESEARCH CENTER   (Germany)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF BRAUNSCHWEIG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Delayed testing; Modality effect; Multimedia effect; Prerequisite knowledge; Reading comprehension; Redundancy effect; Scientific literacy

Indexed keywords

MODALITY EFFECT; MULTIMEDIA EFFECT; PREREQUISITE KNOWLEDGE; READING COMPREHENSION; SCIENTIFIC LITERACY;

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION;

RESEARCH;

EID: 84887092538     PISSN: 07475632     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.chb.2013.09.022     Document Type: Article

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