Concreteness and imagery effects have been found to be among the most powerful in explaining performance on a variety of language tasks. Concreteness and imagery effects [...]

Fifth-grade students studied a map of a fictitious island while twice listening to a related narrative containing target feature and nonfeature items. The students were c[...]

In this study, we examined the influence of graphic patterns and their interpretive context on learning accompanying prose. Subjects examined a graphic figure identified [...]

On the basis of Kulhavy's (R. W. Kulhavy, J. B. Lee, andL. C. Caterino, 1985) conjoint retention model of text learning with organized spatial displays, the authors condu[...]

This study examines whether the spatial configuration of two adjunct pictures influences processing of accompanying text as has been found in the case of other types of g[...]

As we embrace the concept of e-mentorship, we not only wonder whether face-to-face mentoring can be replaced by an electronic doppelganger (i.e. a phantom twin), but also[...]

With the ever-increasing role of technology as an innovative force in society, we have witnessed major changes in the types of education being developed and in how learni[...]

In two studies, undergraduates learned a map of the city of Rome in either a flat survey map or a one-point perspective format. The perspective map lead to greater featur[...]

This article addresses an important need—the dissemination of information relating to technology as a public relations tool—and the associated exigency for administrator [...]

This article explores the new and important field of mentoring in higher education. It describes a pilot project that launched the mentoring of new scholars through an ac[...]

The effect of density of embedded post-questions on learning from computer-based instruction (CBI) was studied among 90 sixth-graders randomly assigned to three versions [...]

There is a longstanding tradition in psychological research for norming lists of words that are used in experimental studies. The present study extends this practice to g[...]

This study challenged the long-held assumption that the ?retinal variable,? such as color or shape, used to represent data on an information display influences how well i[...]

Two experiments compared real and virtual models as aids for learning assembly skills. In Experiment 1, ten participants individually studied either a fully assembled mod[...]

Eighty-five undergraduates read a 1,399-word story using computer programs that differed in the types of learning aids provided: either prequestions only (PO) viewed prio[...]

Faculty-student support groups have the potential to promote strategies for co-mentorship in places of learning. They can also function to facilitate alternative forms of[...]