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Effects of integrating digital visual materials with textbook scans in the classroom

Panjwani, Saurabh, Micallef, Luana, Fenech, Karl, Toyama, Kentaro (2009) Effects of integrating digital visual materials with textbook scans in the classroom. International Journal of Education and Development using Information and Communication Technology (IJEDICT), 5 (3). pp. 55-71. (KAR id:30592)

Abstract

This work examines the effects of treating learners in a classroom to digital visual materials on a shared display, while interleaving such materials with scanned copies of relevant textbook pages. Forty-six ninth-grade students in a public school in Bangalore (India) were divided into two groups and given instruction in Science and Literature, the first group (control) being exposed to digital visual materials in both classes while the second (treatment) to the same materials interspersed with digitally-scanned copies of textbook pages. Students in the treatment group outperformed those in the control group on tasks involving recall and recognition of the visual materials (although the gap was significant only for recall-based tasks). Our results suggest that digitized versions of textbooks are useful in improving students' retention of visual materials utilized during classroom instruction.

Item Type: Article
Additional information: Online at http://ijedict.dec.uwi.edu/viewarticle.php?id=760&layout=html
Uncontrolled keywords: education, technology, visual materials, classroom, textbooks
Subjects: Q Science > QA Mathematics (inc Computing science) > QA 76 Software, computer programming,
Q Science > QA Mathematics (inc Computing science) > QA 76 Software, computer programming, > QA76.9.H85 Human computer interaction
Divisions: Divisions > Division of Computing, Engineering and Mathematical Sciences > School of Computing
Depositing User: L. Micallef
Date Deposited: 21 Sep 2012 09:49 UTC
Last Modified: 16 Nov 2021 10:08 UTC
Resource URI: https://kar.kent.ac.uk/id/eprint/30592 (The current URI for this page, for reference purposes)

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Micallef, Luana.

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