Richard E. Mayer is a professor of psychology and education at the University of California, Santa Barbara. L EARNING INVOLVES THE ACQUISITION of knowledge. This is a commonsense view of learning that has implications for how to teach—such as presenting information to learners in books and lectures—and how to assess—such as testing to see how much of the presented material students can remember...

Many studies have reported that tests are beneficial for learning (e.g., Roediger & Karpicke, 2006a). However, the majority of studies on the testing effect have been limited to a combination of relatively simple verbal tasks and final tests that assessed memory for the same material that had originally been tested. The present study explored whether testing is beneficial for complex spatial me...

A long-term training paradigm in lipreading was used to test the fuzzy logical model of perception (FLMP). This model has been used successfully to describe the joint contribution of audible and visible speech in bimodal speech perception. Tests of the model were extended in the present experiment to include the prediction of confusion matrices, as well as performance at several different level...

the concept of imagery is to make an image of successful movement skill or a relaxing image in mind with no body training and external experience. the aim of the present study was to compare the effect of traditional and pettlep mental imagery methods on static and dynamic balance. the statistical population consisted of all female university of tehran students who had general physical educatio...

The seductive detail principle asserts that people learn more deeply from a multimedia presentation when interesting but unimportant adjuncts are excluded. The recent eye tracker experiment attempts to expand this principle for learning contexts containing no time limits and examines the moderating effect of attention control. Students (N = 55) received an illustrated introduction to factor ana...

OBJECTIVES In line with a recent report entitled Effective Use of Educational Technology in Medical Education from the Association of American Medical Colleges Institute for Improving Medical Education (AAMC-IME), this study examined whether revising a medical lecture based on evidence-based principles of multimedia design would lead to improved long-term transfer and retention in Year 3 medica...