A kind of expertise reversal effect: Personalisation effect can depend on domain-specific prior knowledge
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Klaus Stiller, Rosemarie Jedlicka
Australasian Journal of Educational Technology Volume 26, Number 1, ISSN 0814-673X Publisher: Australasian Society for Computers in Learning in Tertiary Education
Abstract
In instructional multimedia design, it is often recommended that text accompanying pictures be presented in a personalised style to promote learning. The superiority of personalised over formal text may be explained using social agency theory (Mayer, 2005b), but it has not been investigated empirically whether such effects are valid in classroom settings, or depend on learner characteristics such as domain-specific prior knowledge. In this research, 65 pupils from the 10th grade of German grammar schools received computerised instructions about the structure of the human eye, containing static pictures and on screen text. The texts were written either in formal or in personalised style. Personalisation of the formal text was reached by replacing 130 impersonal articles with second person possessive pronouns and 24 third person articles with second person constructions. For learners with low prior knowledge, personalisation improved drawing and labeling performance, as well as the verbalisation of structural knowledge and transfer. For learners with higher prior knowledge, only labeling and drawing performance were improved, whilst structural knowledge was not affected and transfer performance was reduced.
Citation
Stiller, K., Jedlicka, R. & Jedlicka, R. (2010). A kind of expertise reversal effect: Personalisation effect can depend on domain-specific prior knowledge. Australasian Journal of Educational Technology, 26(1),. Australasian Society for Computers in Learning in Tertiary Education. Retrieved March 28, 2024 from https://www.learntechlib.org/p/44219/.
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