Students Learn Better From Web Pages That Contain Print "Cues"
Can students learn just as well from the World Wide Web as they do from print? Yes, says a new study -- but only if Web pages offer some of the same elements found on today's typical printed page.
Why Files Bibliography
William P. Eveland and Sharon Dunwoody, "An Investigation of Elaboration and Selective Scanning as Mediators of Learning from the Web versus Print," Journal of Broadcasting & Electronic Media, in press.
William P. Eveland and Sharon Dunwoody "Applying Research on the Uses and Cognitive Effects of Hypermedia to the Study of the World Wide Web," in B. Gudykunst, ed., Communication Yearbook 25, in press.
William P. Eveland and Sharon Dunwoody, "User Control and Structural Isomorphism or Disorientation and Cognitive Load? Learning from the Web versus Print," Communication Research 28(1):48-78, February 2001.
Sharon Dunwoody, "Studying Users of The Why Files," Science Communication, 22(3): 274-22, 2001.
William P. Eveland Jr. and Sharon Dunwoody, "Examining Information Processing on the World Wide Web Using Think Aloud Protocols," Media Psychology 2(3):219-243.
W.P. Eveland and S. Dunwoody, "Users and Navigation Patterns of a Science World Wide Web Site for the Public." Public Understanding of Science 7(4):285-311, 1998.
William P. Eveland and Sharon Dunwoody, "Surfing the Web for Science: Early Data on the Users and Uses of The Why Files. NISE Brief, vol. 2, no. 2., May 1998.
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