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The Effects of Annotations of Illustrations and Simplified Text on College Students’ Reading Comprehension in the Web-based Learning Environment
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EdMedia + Innovate Learning, in Denver, Colorado, USA ISBN 978-1-880094-95-2 Publisher: Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education (AACE), Waynesville, NC

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The purpose of the present study was to investigate the effectiveness of different annotation modes in web-based learning environment. Participants were assigned into four groups. A multiple-choice reading comprehension test, a recall protocol test, a questionnaire, and an interview were adopted in this study. Participants’ performance on the multiple-choice reading comprehension was better while reading with text-picture combination annotations in the web-based learning environment. Participants’ performance on the recall protocol test was better while reading with text-picture combination annotations in the web-based learning environment. The pedagogical implications for multimedia design were also discussed.

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Yen, Y.C. & Ni, S. (2012). The Effects of Annotations of Illustrations and Simplified Text on College Students’ Reading Comprehension in the Web-based Learning Environment. In T. Amiel & B. Wilson (Eds.), Proceedings of EdMedia 2012--World Conference on Educational Media and Technology (pp. 2671-2680). Denver, Colorado, USA: Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education (AACE). Retrieved February 28, 2021 from .

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