Effects of Elaborations Included in Textbooks: Large Time Cost, Reduced Attention, and Lower Memory for Main Ideas
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DOI: 10.1007/s10648-020-09553-x
Abstract: Textbooks currently include many elaborations that describe, illustrate, and explain main ideas, increasing the length of these textbook chapters. The current study investigated if the cost in additional reading time that these elaborations impose is… read more here.
Keywords: memory main; time; main ideas; time cost ... See more keywords