Université de Fribourg

Learning with summaries: Effects of representation mode and type of learning activity on comprehension and transfer

Leopold, Claudia ; Sumfleth, Elke ; Leutner, Detlev

In: Learning and Instruction, 2013, vol. 27, p. 40-49

The purpose of the experiment was to examine whether students better understand a science text when they are asked to self-generate summaries or to study predefined summaries. Furthermore, we tested the effects of verbal and pictorial summaries. The experiment followed a 2 × 2 design with representation mode (verbal vs. pictorial) and learning activity (self-generating vs. studying) as...

Université de Fribourg

Make a drawing. Effects of strategic knowledge, drawing accuracy, and type of drawing on students’ mathematical modelling performance

Rellensmann, Johanna ; Schukajlow, Stanislaw ; Leopold, Claudia

In: Educational Studies in Mathematics, 2016, vol. 95, no. 1, p. 53-78

Drawing strategies are widely used as a powerful tool for promoting students’ learning and problem solving. In this article, we report the results of an inferential mediation analysis that was applied to investigate the roles that strategic knowledge about drawing and the accuracy of different types of drawings play in mathematical modelling performance. Sixty-one students were asked to...