Multimedia Presentations to Maximize Learning: New Research With High School Science Students

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Abstract

In school settings, there is a preponderance of information delivered via multimedia to students everyday (e.g., visual aids found in science textbooks, tablets, streamed content, websites, animations, and presentations). The cognitive theory of multimedia learning (CTML) outlines numerous principles associated with learning from multimedia. However, the bulk of research like the CTML has been conducted using college age students. There is ample evidence that college age students and younger students exhibit numerous and important differences when learning from multimedia content. As a result, the objective of the current study is to examine the influence of multimedia presentations that leverage motion (present or absent) in conjunction with signaling cues (present or absent) on high school students’ ability to learn science concepts.

Authors

• Eric Eugene Rapp, University of Nevada - Las Vegas

• P.G. Schrader, University of Nevada - Las Vegas