Effects of Illustrations on Children’s Listening Comprehension and Oral Prose Memory

A Preliminary Study of the Influences on Response Stability of the Interactive Dominic/Terry Questionnaire

“…This dual-modality approach is consistent with Paivio's dual-coding theory, which posits two distinct subsystems, an auditory and a visual system, that process cognitive information (Paivio, 1986). Such a combined approach has been shown to aid comprehension and learning, enhance children's memory (Pressley & Miller, 1987;Schneider & Pressley, 1997), improve attention, and stimulate interest (Calvert, 1999;Peeck, 1987;Pezdek & Stevens, 1984). In addition, according to Bender and Levin (cited in Pressley & Miller, 1987) the dualmodality approach significantly improved learning in a group of educable mentally retarded children.…”

Strategy Instruction Research Comes of Age

“…Of course, there is a long history of educational psychologists providing materials that "make up" for processing that students either do not or cannot do (Gagne & Bell, 1981;Pressley, 1983). These include placement of adjunct questions in text (e.g., Anderson & Biddle, 1975) and addition of representational illustrations to prose (e.g., Levie, 1987;Levie & Lentz, 1982;Levin, 1976;Pressley & Miller, 1987). Signals are often added to text to make clear which content should be processed and remembered (Mayer, 1987 As with diagnosis and strategy instruction, modified materials are probably best evaluated in the laboratory before they are tried out in the classroom.…”

Untersuchungen zur Prägnanz von Abbildungen in Büchern für den Chemieunterricht

“…das Vokabellernen), wie verschiedene Untersuchungen bestä-tigten [3,6,8,9]. Dabei zeigte sich, dass durch Bilder auch Texte im Langzeitgedächtnis verankert werden konnten, insbesondere dann, wenn sich die Abbildungen auf die Hauptideen des Gelesenen beschränkten [33].…”