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Worked Examples In Video Lessons To Reduce Cognitive Load, Kiera Llord-Ratcliffe
Worked Examples In Video Lessons To Reduce Cognitive Load, Kiera Llord-Ratcliffe
Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies
Informed parent advocates are essential to planning the educational outcomes of their children with special needs in the K through 12 public school system. However, inappropriate instructional techniques used in advocacy training may reduce trainees' learning outcomes by adding complexity and increasing cognitive load. This study examined whether using worked examples to break down complex problems into component parts to build long term schema could lower cognitive load and thus improve learning outcomes for parent advocacy trainees. Based on cognitive load theory, this 2 x 3 factorial design study examined the efficacy of noninteractive video lessons for parent trainees using …