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How a picture facilitates the process of learning from text: Evidence for scaffolding

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Author

  • Alexander Eitel
  • Katharina Scheiter
  • Anne Schüler
  • Marcus Nyström
  • Kenneth Holmqvist

Summary, in English

Three experiments were conducted to study on a more fine-grained level how processing a picture facilitates learning from text. In Experiment 1 (N = 85), results from a drawing task revealed that the global spatial structure of a pulley system picture was extracted even from its brief inspection (for 600 ms, 2 s). In Experiment 2 (N = 105), students who initially inspected the pulley system picture (for 600 ms, 2 s, or self-paced) had better comprehension of the system's functions and made more eye movements in line with the system's global spatial structure when listening to text than students who listened to text only. In Experiment 3 (N = 39), students who first saw the picture (for 2 s) processed written text of the pulley system's spatial structure more efficiently than students who read text only. Results suggest that global spatial information extracted from the picture was used as a mental scaffold to facilitate mental model construction.

Publishing year

2013

Language

English

Pages

48-63

Publication/Series

Learning and Instruction

Volume

28

Document type

Journal article

Publisher

Elsevier

Topic

  • Human Aspects of ICT

Status

Published

ISBN/ISSN/Other

  • ISSN: 0959-4752