Pictorial Illustrations Still Improve Students' Learning from Text

By Russell N. Carney, J. Levin. 2002

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Subfields: Developmental and Educational Psychology, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Literature and Literary Theory

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Eye-Tracking Students' Attention to PowerPoint Photographs in a Science Education Setting (2005, background): “In a study that compared learning in classes integrating PowerPoint with embedded audio, traditional live classes, and classes that were video based, Carrell and Menzel (2001) found short-term learning was significantly higher for audio-PowerPoint classrooms.”
Epilogue: Plotting a Research Agenda for Multiple Representations, Multiple Modality, and Multimodal Representational Competency (2010, background): “Embeddedness is least likely if the visual adjunct to printed words is decorative, more likely if it is representational or organizational, and required if it is interpretational or transformational ( Carney and Levin 2002; Tippett 2008).”
Mental Health Smartphone Apps: Review and Evidence-Based Recommendations for Future Developments (2016, positive): “Using illustrations, such as faces, for emotions, can also improve the efficiency of understanding [277].”
Edutainment: is learning at risk? (2003, background): “Carney and Levin (2002) claim that the supportive function of visuo-spatial adjuncts seems to be especially evident with learners of low prior knowledge and low verbal skills.”
The Impact of Illustrations and Warnings on Solving Mathematical Word Problems Realistically (2014, background): “On the basis of the categorization of Carney and Levin (2002), Elia and Philippou (2004) distinguished four functions1: decorative pictures, representational pictures, organizational pictures, and informational pictures.”
Does animation enhance learning? A meta-analysis (2016, background): “A decorational function translates visuals that are not directly related to the instructional purpose (Carney & Levin, 2002).”
The role of working memory components in multimedia comprehension (2008, background): “In the field of research into the role of illustrations, several authors have attempted to explain the facilitative effect of illustrations on memory (see Carney & Levin, 2002 for a review).”
The Effects of Different Modes of Representation on Mathematical Problem Solving. (2004, positive): “Based on the functions that pictures serve in text processing, as proposed by Carney and Levin (2002) (decorative, representational, organizational, interpretational and transformational), the present study attempted to examine the role of two divergent categories of pictures, decorative and…”
THE FUNCTIONS OF PICTURES IN PROBLEM SOLVING (2004, methodology): “Based on Carney and Levin’s (2002) proposed functions that pictures serve in a text, this study used a similar categorization of pictures in order to examine the role of each type of pictures in students’ performance, in MPS.”
Decorative pictures and emotional design in multimedia learning (2016, background): “According to Carney and Levin (2002), pictures serve five different functions.”
The role of pictures in improving health communication: a review of research on attention, comprehension, recall, and adherence. (2006, methodology): “More recent reviews by Fillippatou and Pumfrey [24] as well as Carney and Levin [25] conclude that research conducted in the 1990s continues to confirm that pictures can enhance comprehension.”