The use of adjunct displays to facilitate comprehension of causal relationships in expository text

Volume: 37, Issue: 1, Pages: 65 - 86
Published: Jul 25, 2007
Abstract
We examined whether making cause and effect relationships explicit with an adjunct display improves different facets of text comprehension compared to a text only condition. In two experiments, participants read a text and then either studied a causal diagram, studied a list, or reread the text. In both experiments, readers who studied the adjunct displays better recalled the steps in the causal sequences, answered more problem-solving transfer...
Paper Details
Title
The use of adjunct displays to facilitate comprehension of causal relationships in expository text
Published Date
Jul 25, 2007
Volume
37
Issue
1
Pages
65 - 86
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