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This article describes a statistical integration of findings from 74 studies of visualbased college teaching. In the typical study, students learned slightly more from visual-based instruction than from conventional teaching. In the typical study, visual-based instruction had no special effect on course completion, student attitudes, or the correlation between aptitude and achievement. Students were equally likely to complete visual-based and conventional classes; their attitudes toward the two kinds of classes were very similar; and aptitude played a strong role in determining student achievement in each kind of class.
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This study was supported by National Science Foundation Grant SED 77-18566.
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Cohen, P.A., Ebeling, B.J. & Kulik, J.A. A meta-analysis of outcome studies of visual-based instruction. ECTJ 29, 26–36 (1981). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02765190
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