Hsin-Yi Chen｜Teacher, Taipei Mandarin Experimental Elementary School
Ching-Zon Yen｜Professor, Department of Mathematics and Information education, National Taipei University of Education
▌Abstract
This study uses quasi-experimental design. The sample size recruited as the subjects of this study was 122 fifth-graders in a selected primary school in Taipei City. The experiment proceeded two phases. It started with a pretest and the selection of the prospective participants based on the result of pretest. After that, the selected participants were required to learn the given experimental materials and to take a posttest afterwards. The following was a list of findings generalized from the statistical results of the quantitative data in this study. 1. There was no difference in whether the material design following interactive or segmented principles has an effect on learners’ cognitive load. 2. Learners with higher level of prior knowledge have higher media learning achievement than those with lower level prior knowledge following interactive and segmented principles. 3. There was a negative correlation found between cognitive load and learning achievement. Based on the findings of this study, the researcher attempts to propose certain basic principles for the design and for the selection of multimedia materials. Significant superiority to the control group, which read e-books on the Internet, in both the ability and the level in reading comprehension. Comparisons of reading comprehension within the experiment group found no significant differences between genders. Comparisons of aboriginal students in the experiment group indicated that the aboriginal students were superior to non-aboriginal students in both the ability and the level in reading comprehension, indicating that reading comprehension is related to the content of the reading. The comparisons of reading comprehension between male and female aboriginal students in the experiment group.
Keywords: Multimedia Presentation Modes, Prior Knowledge, Cognitive Load