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research_results:spatial_contiguity_principle [2011/06/08 15:07]
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research_results:spatial_contiguity_principle [2011/06/08 16:09]
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 ===== Theory ===== ===== Theory =====
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 +The spatial contiguity principle suggests that related information sources should be **spatially integrated** in order to reduce attention-splitting and facilitate learning.
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 ===== Practice ===== ===== Practice =====
  
-[[http://​eet.sdsu.edu/​eetwiki/​index.php/​Split_attention_effect|{{ ​ :​images:​split_attention.jpg?​450x220|Spatial contiguity principle. Image borrowed from: http://​eet.sdsu.edu/​eetwiki... Click on the picture to follow the link.}}]]An example of a solved mathematical problem taking into consideration and ignoring the spatial contiguity principle is presented in image on the right (Example A and Example ​respectively).+[[http://​eet.sdsu.edu/​eetwiki/​index.php/​Split_attention_effect|{{ ​ :​images:​split_attention.jpg?​450x220|Spatial contiguity principle. Image borrowed from: http://​eet.sdsu.edu/​eetwiki... Click on the picture to follow the link.}}]]An example of a solved mathematical problem taking into consideration and ignoring the spatial contiguity principle is presented in image on the rightExample A shows separated text and graph (two information sources), whereas example ​shows same two information sources, but this time spatially integrated. For another example see work of Florax and Ploetzner(([[http://​www.sciencedirect.com/​science/​article/​pii/​S0959475209000358|Florax,​ Mareike, and Rolf Ploetzner. What contributes to the split-attention effect? The role of text segmentation,​ picture labelling, and spatial proximity. Learning and Instruction 20, no. 3: 216-224. June 2010.]])).
  
  
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-Experiments have confirmed importance of this principle(([[http://​visuallearningresearch.wiki.educ.msu.edu/​file/​view/​Chandler+%26+Sweller+(1991).pdf|Chandler,​ P. and Sweller, J. Cognitive load theory and the format of instruction. Cognition and Instruction,​ 8(4), 293-332. 1991.]]))+Experiments have confirmed importance of this principle(([[http://​visuallearningresearch.wiki.educ.msu.edu/​file/​view/​Chandler+%26+Sweller+(1991).pdf|Chandler,​ P. and Sweller, J. Cognitive load theory and the format of instruction. Cognition and Instruction,​ 8(4), 293-332. 1991.]])), yet similar results were sometimes obtained using not necessarily spatial contiguity, but segmenting text and labeling the image.(([[http://​www.sciencedirect.com/​science/​article/​pii/​S0959475209000358|Florax,​ Mareike, and Rolf Ploetzner. What contributes to the split-attention effect? The role of text segmentation,​ picture labelling, and spatial proximity. Learning and Instruction 20, no. 3: 216-224. June 2010.]]))
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