Research in several disciplines has shown that using visual cues to focus learners’ attention on relevant areas in diagrams and animations can increase comprehension and facilitate problem solving. We investigate the effectiveness of visual cues in physics problems containing a diagram with respect to comprehension and transfer. We also investigate to what extent viewing cues influences eye movements. The treatment group saw an initial problem, and if they answered incorrectly, were shown similar problems overlaid with dynamic visual cues relating to the correct solution. The control group saw the same problems without cues. All students verbally explained their reasoning after each question and answered transfer problems without cues. We report on students’ eye movements and verbal explanations. |
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