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2: Graphics in Texts

1977; SAGE Publishing; Volume: 5; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês

10.3102/0091732x005001049

1935-1038

Michael Macdonald‐Ross,

Education and Technology Integration

The purpose of this review is to summarize what is known about the effective use of graphic devices in texts and other instructional materials. Information about graphic devices comes mainly from two sources: the experience of skilled graphic communicators and the formal laboratory experiments of applied psychologists. Both these sources have been consulted for this review. To keep it to a reasonable length I discuss what I think are the central issues and leave other questions untouched. It may be useful for researchers to consult the recent bibliography by Macdonald-Ross and Smith (1977), which lists all the relevant research known to me as I write this review.