Investigations of the Effect of Format of Advance Organizers on Learners” Achievement on Understanding of Science Concepts
This study investigated how the format of advance organizers affected student understanding of common science knowledge.A pretest-posttest experimental design was used in the study.Four classes,totally 136 vocational high school students participated in this study.Each class of 34 students were assigned into one of the following groups,namely text organizer group,voice organizer group,concept map organizer group,and control group.Students viewed an advance organizer prior to learning of the principles regarding different kinds of pitches that are commonly pitched by professional baseball pitchers.A pretest was given to students to realize their prior understanding of the learning content while post-tests were manipulated to collect participants” recall memory,recognition memory,transfer,and retention of the content domain.An ANCOVA were used to compare the differences among the four groups on their achievement by controlling participants” pretest score.In general,the advance organizer groups were found to outperform the control group on retention tests.Students that used concept map organizer were found to perform significantly better than the other three groups.The findings showed that the concept map organizer can be a powerful tool in achieving effective instruction.A larger sample size and longer learning time are needed in future studies in order to understand in-depth how the format of advance organizers affected student learning in multimedia learning environments.
advance organizer science learning multimedia learning
Han-Chin Liu Jia-Ying Jhou Chih-Kai Chang
Chiayi University
国内会议
北京
英文
65-66
2013-05-27（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）