ICLS 2000 Proceedings

Strategic Use of Knowledge Media for Conceptual Understanding through Self-Explaining

Jun Oshima, Katsutoshi Yuasa and Ritsuko Oshima
Shizuoka University
Faculty of Education
836 Oya Shizuoka, Japan 422-8529
Tel. 011-81-54-238-4683
joshima@oshima-7.ed.shizuoka.ac.jp

Abstract: The effects of knowledge media for self-explaining in learning were explored. University students listened to a psychology lecture tape in three different conditions of self-explaining. Analyses showed that subjects who used a diagram application to represent their units of ideas in a strategic self-explaining condition manifested superior understanding of learned contents.

Keywords: reflection, scaffolding, visualization

Preferred Citation Format:
Oshima, J., Yuasa, K., & Oshima, R. (2000). Strategic Use of Knowledge Media for Conceptual Understanding through Self-Explaining. In B. Fishman & S. O'Connor-Divelbiss (Eds.), Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference of the Learning Sciences (pp. 48-49). Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum.

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