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-===== The Signaling Effect =====+====== The Signaling Effect ​======
  
-The signaling effect presents the increase in learning outcomes due to promotion of attention to relevant information. Signals are based on natural attention attractors like movement ​or contrast. In multimedia this can also be achieved through various methods like(([[http://​www.odtu.edu.tr/​~kursat/​CHB_1184-preprint.pdf|Ozcelik,​ Erol, Ismahan Arslan-Ari, and Kursat Cagiltay. Why does signaling enhance multimedia learning? Evidence from eye movements. Computers in Human Behavior 26, no. 1: 110-117. January 2010.]])):+===== Theory ===== 
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 +The signaling effect presents the increase in learning outcomes due to guiding and **promotion of attention to relevant information**. Signals are based on natural attention attractors like movementcontrast ​or sound. In multimedia this effect ​can also be achieved through various methods like(([[http://​www.odtu.edu.tr/​~kursat/​CHB_1184-preprint.pdf|Ozcelik,​ Erol, Ismahan Arslan-Ari, and Kursat Cagiltay. Why does signaling enhance multimedia learning? Evidence from eye movements. Computers in Human Behavior 26, no. 1: 110-117. January 2010.]])):
  
   - enumeration,​ -> arrows, __underlining__,​   - enumeration,​ -> arrows, __underlining__,​
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   - summaries or overviews.   - summaries or overviews.
  
-A recent research has again confirmed and attempted to explain the signaling effect using recorded eye movements data of the experiment participants. As they concluded, 
  
-  ​"//Eye movement ​data shows that signaling ​guided ​attention to relevant information and improved the efficiency ​and effectiveness ​of finding necessary information.//"(([[http://​www.odtu.edu.tr/​~kursat/​CHB_1184-preprint.pdf|Ozcelik,​ Erol, Ismahan Arslan-Ari, and Kursat Cagiltay. Why does signaling enhance multimedia learning? Evidence from eye movements. Computers in Human Behavior 26, no. 1: 110-117. January 2010.]]))+===== Practice ===== 
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 +Examples of signaling implementation in practice: 
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 +  ​preview **summary** paragraph(([[http:​//www.sciencedirect.com/​science/​article/​pii/​S002206630200048X|Mautone,​ Patricia D., and Richard E. Mayer. Signaling as a Cognitive Guide in Multimedia Learning. Journal of Educational Psychology 93, no. 2: 377-389. June 2001.]])) 
 +  * **section headings**(([[http://​www.sciencedirect.com/​science/​article/​pii/​S002206630200048X|Mautone,​ Patricia D., and Richard E. Mayer. Signaling as a Cognitive Guide in Multimedia Learning. Journal of Educational Psychology 93, no. 2: 377-389. June 2001.]])) 
 +  * **labels color change** synchronized with a spoken explanation(([[http://​www.odtu.edu.tr/​~kursat/​CHB_1184-preprint.pdf|Ozcelik,​ Erol, Ismahan Arslan-Ari, and Kursat Cagiltay. Why does signaling enhance multimedia learning? Evidence from eye movements. Computers in Human Behavior 26, no. 1: 110-117. January 2010.]]))(([[http://​129.194.9.47/​perso/​gavota/​jamet_gavota_quaireau_final-3.pdf|Jamet,​ Eric, Monica Gavota, and Christophe Quaireau. Attention guiding in multimedia learning. Learning and Instruction 18, no. 2: 135-145. April 2008.]])) 
 +  * **step-by-step presentation** of diagram elements synchronized with a spoken explanation(([[http://​129.194.9.47/​perso/​gavota/​jamet_gavota_quaireau_final-3.pdf|Jamet,​ Eric, Monica Gavota, and Christophe Quaireau. Attention guiding in multimedia learning. Learning and Instruction 18, no. 2: 135-145. April 2008.]])) 
 +  * text **underlining**(([[http://​www.sciencedirect.com/​science/​article/​pii/​S0361476X8571003X|Robert F., Elizabeth Pugzles Lorch, and Madeline A. Klusewitz. Effects of Typographical Cues on Reading and Recall of Text. Contemporary Educational Psychology 20, no. 1: 51-64. January 1995.]])) 
 +  * text **capitalization**(([[http://​www.sciencedirect.com/​science/​article/​pii/​S0361476X8571003X|Robert F., Elizabeth Pugzles Lorch, and Madeline A. Klusewitz. Effects of Typographical Cues on Reading and Recall of Text. Contemporary Educational Psychology 20, no. 1: 51-64. January 1995.]])) 
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 +===== Research status ===== 
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 +A recent research(([[http://​www.odtu.edu.tr/​~kursat/​CHB_1184-preprint.pdf|Ozcelik,​ Erol, Ismahan Arslan-Ari, and Kursat Cagiltay. Why does signaling enhance multimedia learning? Evidence from eye movements. Computers in Human Behavior 26, no. 1: 110-117. January 2010.]])) has confirmed and attempted to explain the signaling effect using recorded eye movements ​data of the experiment participants. Some of the conclusions of this and similar studies concerning the signaling effect are:   
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 +  * Signaling can guide attention to relevant information,​ which reduces cognitive resources normally assigned for search of information(([[http://​www.odtu.edu.tr/​~kursat/​CHB_1184-preprint.pdf|Ozcelik,​ Erol, Ismahan Arslan-Ari, and Kursat Cagiltay. Why does signaling enhance multimedia learning? Evidence from eye movements. Computers in Human Behavior 26, no. 1: 110-117. January 2010.]])) 
 +  * Eye-tracking studies confirmed ​that signaling ​results in more attention ​devoted ​to relevant information(([[http://​www.odtu.edu.tr/​~kursat/​CHB_1184-preprint.pdf|Ozcelik,​ Erol, Ismahan Arslan-Ari, ​and Kursat Cagiltay. Why does signaling enhance multimedia learning? Evidence from eye movements. Computers in Human Behavior 26, no. 1: 110-117. January 2010.]])) 
 +  * Some studies have found increase in retention tests performance,​ but not on transfer tests(([[http://​129.194.9.47/​perso/​gavota/​jamet_gavota_quaireau_final-3.pdf|Jamet,​ Eric, Monica Gavota, ​and Christophe Quaireau. Attention guiding in multimedia learning. Learning and Instruction 18, no. 2: 135-145. April 2008.]] and [[http://​onlinelibrary.wiley.com/​doi/​10.1348/​000709904322848824/​abstract|Tabbers,​ Huib K, Rob L Martens, and Jeroen J. G Merriënboer. Multimedia instructions and cognitive load theory: Effects ​of modality and cueingBritish Journal of Educational Psychology 74, no. 1: 71-81. March 2004.]] cited by [[http://www.odtu.edu.tr/​~kursat/​CHB_1184-preprint.pdf|Ozcelik,​ Erol, Ismahan Arslan-Ari, and Kursat Cagiltay. Why does signaling enhance multimedia learning? Evidence from eye movements. Computers in Human Behavior 26, no. 1: 110-117. January 2010.]])), but others found positive effects of signaling on transfer tests, but not on retention tests(([[http://​www.odtu.edu.tr/​~kursat/​CHB_1184-preprint.pdf|Ozcelik,​ Erol, Ismahan Arslan-Ari, and Kursat Cagiltay. Why does signaling enhance multimedia learning? Evidence from eye movements. Computers in Human Behavior 26, no. 1: 110-117. January 2010.]]))(([[http://​www.sciencedirect.com/​science/​article/​pii/​S002206630200048X|Mautone,​ Patricia D., and Richard E. Mayer. Signaling as a Cognitive Guide in Multimedia Learning. Journal of Educational Psychology 93, no. 2: 377-389. June 2001.]])) 
 +  * In cases when signaling is used, time for finding information is usually reduced, but duration of time spent watching/​processing this information increases when compared to no signaling conditions 
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