The effect of causal diagrams on text learning

Volume: 32, Issue: 3, Pages: 367 - 388
Published: Jul 1, 2007
Abstract
We examined the effect of studying a causal diagram on comprehension of causal relationships from an expository science text. A causal diagram is a type of visual display that explicitly represents cause-effect relationships. In Experiment 1, readers between conditions did not differ with respect to memory for main ideas, but the readers who studied the causal diagram while reading the text understood better the five causal sequences in the text...
Paper Details
Title
The effect of causal diagrams on text learning
Published Date
Jul 1, 2007
Volume
32
Issue
3
Pages
367 - 388
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