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Contains fulltext : 283395.pdf (Publisher’s version ) (Open Access) Children and adults with dyslexia are often provided with audio-support, which reads the written text for the learner. The present study examined to what extent audio-support as a form of external regulation impacts navigation patterns in children and adults with and without dyslexia. We compared navigation patterns in multimedia lessons of learners with (36 children, 41 adults), and without dyslexia (46 children, 44 adults) in a text-condition vs. text-audio-condition. Log files were recorded to identify navigation patterns. Four patterns could be distinguished: linear reading (linear), linear reading with rereading (big peak), reading with going back to previous pages (small peaks), and a combination of strategies (combined peaks). Children generally used linear navigation strategies in both conditions, whereas adults mostly used combined-peaks strategies in the text-condition, but linear strategies in the text-audio-condition. No differences were found between learners with and without dyslexia. Audio-support does not impact navigation strategies in children but does seem to impact navigation strategies in adult learners, towards the use of more linear navigation patterns, reflecting less self-regulation. 19 p.

Item does not contain fulltext Children with dyslexia are often provided with audio-support to compensate for their reading problems, but this may intervene with their learning. The aim of the study was to examine modality and redundancy effects in 21 children with dyslexia, compared to 21 typically developing peers (5th grade), on study outcome (retention and transfer knowledge) and study time in user-paced learning environments and the role of their executive functions (verbal and visual working memory, inhibition, and cognitive flexibility) on these effects. Results showed no effects on retention knowledge. Regarding transfer knowledge, a modality effect in children with dyslexia was found, and a reversed redundancy effect in typically developing children. For transfer knowledge, written text with pictures supported knowledge gain in typically developing children, but not in children with dyslexia who benefited more from auditory-presented information with pictures. Study time showed modality and reversed redundancy effects in both groups. In all children, studying in a written text with pictures condition took longer than with audio replacing the text or being added to it. Results also showed that executive functions were related to learning, but they did not differ between the groups, nor did they impact the found modality and redundancy effects. The present research thus shows that, irrespectively of children’s executive functions, adding audio-support for all children, can potentially lead to more efficient learning. 10 p.

Contains fulltext : 234377.pdf (Publisher’s version ) (Open Access) Teacher dashboards provide real-time information about students' performance and progress, which help K-12 teachers to adjust feedback to student' specific needs during learning. Prior research indicated two problems with respect to how teachers provide feedback: (i) teachers do not always select the most effective feedback to support student' learning and (ii) feedback is not allocated equally to students with different abilities. Specifically, process feedback is considered most effective yet is relatively scarce. In order to understand how dashboards influence the type and allocation of feedback, we compared characteristics of feedback given after dashboard consultation (dashboard-prompted feedback) to feedback triggered by teachers themselves or in response to students’ questions (human-prompted feedback) in thirty-five K-12 classrooms. Results showed that dashboards led to equal amounts of task and process feedback, while human-prompts led to much more task than process feedback and this difference was especially large for low-ability students. Hence the different types of dashboard-prompted feedback were more equally distributed among students of different ability levels. These results indicate that dashboards can have an important equalizing effect on teacher feedback practices. 31 mei 2021 17 p.

Contains fulltext : 191164.pdf (Publisher’s version ) (Open Access) This study examined the relation between working memory, phonological awareness, and word reading efficiency in fourth‐grade children with dyslexia. To test whether the relation between phonological awareness and word reading efficiency differed for children with dyslexia versus typically developing children, we assessed phonological awareness and word reading efficiency in 50 children with dyslexia (aged 9;10, 35 boys) and 613 typically developing children (aged 9;5, 279 boys). Phonological awareness was found to be associated with word reading efficiency, similar for children with dyslexia and typically developing children. To find out whether the relation between working memory and word reading efficiency in the group with dyslexia could be explained by phonological awareness, the children with dyslexia were also tested on working memory. Results of a mediation analysis showed a significant indirect effect of working memory on word reading efficiency via phonological awareness. Working memory predicted reading efficiency, via its relation with phonological awareness in children with dyslexia. This indicates that working memory is necessary for word reading efficiency via its impact on phonological awareness and that phonological awareness continues to be important for word reading efficiency in older children with dyslexia. 14 p.

Contains fulltext : 216751.pdf (Publisher’s version ) (Open Access) Adding audio to written text may cause redundancy effects, but could be beneficial for students with dyslexia for whom it supports their reading. Studying both learning process and learning outcomes in students with and without dyslexia can shed light on this issue and helps to find out whether there are constraints to the redundancy effect as proposed in the Cognitive Theory of Multimedia Learning. We examined to what extent adding -redundant- audio affects multimedia learning in 42 university students with dyslexia and 44 typically developing students. Participants studied two user-paced multimedia lessons (text-picture, text-audio-picture) with retention and transfer post-tests. An SMI RED-500 eye-tracker captured eye-movements during learning. Regarding process measures, students had longer study times, with more focus on pictures, and more transitions between text and pictures in the text-audio-picture condition. Regarding learning outcomes, negative redundancy effects on transfer knowledge (deep learning), but not on (factual) retention knowledge were found across both groups. When relating learning processes to learning outcomes, longer study time predicted higher transfer knowledge in both groups in the text-audio-picture condition, whereas in the text-picture condition, more study time predicted lower transfer knowledge in typically developing students only. To conclude, adding audio seems to have a negative effect on the quality of knowledge and leads to less efficient learning across the two groups. Reading ability does not impact the universality of the redundancy effect, but students with dyslexia should only use audio support when aiming to learn factual knowledge and should be aware that it increases study time. 14 p.

Contains fulltext : 191205.pdf (Publisher’s version ) (Open Access) The present study aimed to examine the modality and redundancy effects in multimedia learning in children with dyslexia in order to find out whether their learning benefits from written and/or spoken text with pictures. We compared study time and knowledge gain in 26 11‐year‐old children with dyslexia and 38 typically reading peers in a within‐subjects design. All children were presented with a series of user‐paced multimedia lessons in 3 conditions: pictorial information presented with (a) written text, (b) audio, or (c) combined text and audio. We also examined whether children's learning outcomes were related to their working memory. With respect to study time, we found modality and reversed redundancy effects. Children with dyslexia spent more time learning in the text condition, compared with the audio condition and the combined text‐and‐audio condition. Regarding knowledge gain, no modality or redundancy effects were evidenced. Although the groups differed on working memory, it did not influence the modality or redundancy effect on study time or knowledge gain. In multimedia learning, it thus is more efficient to provide children with dyslexia with audio or with auditory support. 16 p.

Contains fulltext : 168791.pdf (Publisher’s version ) (Open Access) Learning analytics empowered educational technologies (LA-ET) in primary classrooms allow for blended learning scenarios with teacher-lead instructions, class-paced and individually-paced practice. This quasi-experimental study investigates the effects of a LA-ET on the development of students' arithmetic skills over one schoolyear. Children learning in a traditional paper & pencil condition were compared to learners using a LA-ET on tablet computers in grade 4. The educational technology combined teacher dashboards (extracted analytics) and class and individually paced assignments (embedded analytics). The results indicated that children in the LA-ET condition made significantly more progress on arithmetic skills in one schoolyear compared to children in the paper & pencil condition. LAK '17: Seventh International Learning Analytics & Knowledge Conference (Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, March 13 - 17, 2017)