Drawing as a Generative Activity and Drawing as a Prognostic Activity

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Authors

  • Annett Schwamborn
  • Richard E. Mayer
  • Hubertina Thillmann
  • Claudia Leopold
  • Detlev Leutner

In this study, 9th-grade students (N = 196) with a mean age of 14.7 years read a scientific text explaining the chemical process of doing laundry with soap and water and then took 3 tests. Students who were instructed to generate drawings during learning scored higher than students who only read on subsequent tests of transfer (d = 0.91), retention (d = 0.87), and drawing (d = 2.00). For students who were instructed to generate drawings during learning, those who generated high-accuracy drawings (according to a median split) scored higher than students who generated low-accuracy drawings on subsequent tests of transfer (d = 0.99), retention (d = 0.79), and drawing ( d = 1.87); furthermore, drawing-accuracy scores during learning correlated with learning-outcome scores on transfer ( r = .57), retention ( r = .50), and drawing ( r = .82). Results suggest that drawing can serve as a generative activity and as a prognostic activity.

Original languageEnglish
JournalJournal of Educational Psychology
Volume102
Issue number4
Pages (from-to)872-879
Number of pages8
ISSN0022-0663
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 11.2010
Externally publishedYes

    Research areas

  • Drawing, Multimedia learning, Text comprehension
  • Psychology

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