Learning by Doing Versus Learning by Viewing: Three Experimental Comparisons of Learner-Generated Versus Author-Provided Graphic Organizers

By Andrew T. Stull, Richard E. Mayer. 2007

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Subfields: Artificial Intelligence, Developmental and Educational Psychology, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology

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Applying the science of learning: evidence-based principles for the design of multimedia instruction. (2008, background): “…and paper-based lessons on lightning and biology, learners who received signaled lessons performed better on transfer tests than students who received nonsignaled lessons (Harp & Mayer, 1998, Experiment 3a; Mautone & Mayer, 2001, Experiments 3a and 3b; Stull & Mayer, 2007, Experiments 1, 2, and 3).”
Differentiated Overt Learning Activities for Effective Instruction in Engineering Classrooms (2013, unknown): “…& Nigam, 2004; Mayer, 2004; Montpas, 2004) or that active is not always better than passive (e.g., Colliver, 2000; Hundley, 2007, Martin, 2009; Osman, 2008a; Osman, 2008b; Sadler, 2002; Stull & Mayer, 2007; Sendag & Odabasi, 2009; Strobel & van Barneveld, 2009; Rittle-Johnson, 2006; Wilson, 1999).”
Explicit Instruction: Historical and Contemporary Contexts (2017, background): “For students with LD, graphic organizers are most effective when they are explicitly taught to fill them out and use them (e.g., as study tools, organizing writing assignments; Dexter & Hughes, 2013; Stull & Mayer, 2007).”
A Meta‐Analysis on the Effects of Text Structure Instruction on Reading Comprehension in the Upper Elementary Grades (2020, background): “The importance of the active construction of GOs contradicts the conclusion of Stull and Mayer (2007), who found that constructing GOs increased the extraneous cognitive processing load and interfered with learning.”
Learning with summaries: Effects of representation mode and type of learning activity on comprehension and transfer (2013, background): “Similarly, Stull and Mayer (2007) found that students who were asked to construct graphic organizers needed more learning time and showed less understanding of the text than those who were asked to view graphic organizers.”
Effects of Observing the Instructor Draw Diagrams on Learning from Multimedia Messages. (2016, background): “Further, signaling may be particularly useful for learners with relatively low prior knowledge (Naumann et al., 2007), when the presentation is relatively complex (Jeung, Chandler, & Sweller, 1997), and when signaling methods are used sparingly rather than excessively (Stull & Mayer, 2007).”
Handbook of Research on Learning and Instruction (2011, methodology): “Again, this research was conducted in an experimental situation and not within the complexity of a physical education class.”
Learning by viewing versus learning by doing: Evidence-based guidelines for principled learning environments (2008, background): “Stull and Mayer (2007) provided learners with a text passage from a biology textbook in which graphic organizers were either provided by the author or readers filled in the words themselves.”