How Design Guides Learning from Matrix Diagrams

Autor/inn/en	van der Meij, Jan; van Amelsvoort, Marije; Anjewierden, Anjo
Titel	How Design Guides Learning from Matrix Diagrams
Quelle	In: Instructional Science: An International Journal of the Learning Sciences, 45 (2017) 6, S.751-767 (17 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0020-4277
DOI	10.1007/s11251-017-9425-1
Schlagwörter	Visual Aids; Concept Mapping; Cues; Retention (Psychology); Experiments; Matrices; Personality Problems; Mental Disorders; Classification; College Students; Reading Processes; Eye Movements; Foreign Countries; Behavioral Sciences; Scores; Recall (Psychology); Netherlands + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Anschauungsmaterial; Concept Map; Stichwort; Merkfähigkeit; Erprobung; Matrizenrechnung; Mental illness; Geisteskrankheit; Classification system; Klassifikation; Klassifikationssystem; Collegestudent; Leseprozess; Augenbewegung; Ausland; Abberufung; Niederlande
Abstract	Compared to text, diagrams are superior in their ability to structure and summarize information and to show relations between concepts and ideas. Perceptual cues, like arrows, are expected to improve the retention of diagrams by guiding the learner towards important elements or showing a preferred reading sequence. In our experiment, we analyzed how students studied four different versions of informationally equivalent, but differently organized matrix diagrams on personality disorders. The diagram consisted of four header cells on top and four on the left, organizing the content into 16 body cells around four types of personality disorders and four categories within each type. Arrows connected the cells either from left to right or top-down. Participants were 81 university students. We found that the participants mainly studied the diagram based on the four types of personality disorders and that the arrows did not guide initial reading behavior. A post-test with retention questions showed that the participants performed better on the questions that focused on types than on the questions that focused on categories, regardless of the condition they were in. Our study has shown that in matrix diagrams the conceptual information guided reading behavior more than the orientation of the diagram and perceptual cues. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01