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Does increasing social presence enhance the effectiveness of writing explanations?
Writing explanations has demonstrated to be less effective than providing oral explanations, as writing triggers less amounts of perceived social presence during explaining. In this study, we investigated whether increasing social presence during writing explanations would aid learning. University s...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8062030/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33886680 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0250406 |
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author | Jacob, Leonie Lachner, Andreas Scheiter, Katharina |
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description | Writing explanations has demonstrated to be less effective than providing oral explanations, as writing triggers less amounts of perceived social presence during explaining. In this study, we investigated whether increasing social presence during writing explanations would aid learning. University students (N = 137) read an instructional text about immunology; their subsequent task depended on experimental condition. Students either explained the contents to a fictitious peer orally, wrote their explanations in a text editor, or wrote them in a messenger chat, which was assumed to induce higher levels of social presence. A control group retrieved the material. Surprisingly, we did not obtain any differences in learning outcomes between experimental conditions. Interestingly, explaining was more effortful, enjoyable, and interesting than retrieving. This study shows that solely inducing social presence does not improve learning from writing explanations. More importantly, the findings underscore the importance of cognitive and motivational conditions during learning activities. |
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spelling | pubmed-80620302021-05-04 Does increasing social presence enhance the effectiveness of writing explanations? Jacob, Leonie Lachner, Andreas Scheiter, Katharina PLoS One Research Article Writing explanations has demonstrated to be less effective than providing oral explanations, as writing triggers less amounts of perceived social presence during explaining. In this study, we investigated whether increasing social presence during writing explanations would aid learning. University students (N = 137) read an instructional text about immunology; their subsequent task depended on experimental condition. Students either explained the contents to a fictitious peer orally, wrote their explanations in a text editor, or wrote them in a messenger chat, which was assumed to induce higher levels of social presence. A control group retrieved the material. Surprisingly, we did not obtain any differences in learning outcomes between experimental conditions. Interestingly, explaining was more effortful, enjoyable, and interesting than retrieving. This study shows that solely inducing social presence does not improve learning from writing explanations. More importantly, the findings underscore the importance of cognitive and motivational conditions during learning activities. Public Library of Science 2021-04-22 /pmc/articles/PMC8062030/ /pubmed/33886680 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0250406 Text en © 2021 Jacob et al https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) , which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. |
spellingShingle | Research Article Jacob, Leonie Lachner, Andreas Scheiter, Katharina Does increasing social presence enhance the effectiveness of writing explanations? |
title | Does increasing social presence enhance the effectiveness of writing explanations? |
title_full | Does increasing social presence enhance the effectiveness of writing explanations? |
title_fullStr | Does increasing social presence enhance the effectiveness of writing explanations? |
title_full_unstemmed | Does increasing social presence enhance the effectiveness of writing explanations? |
title_short | Does increasing social presence enhance the effectiveness of writing explanations? |
title_sort | does increasing social presence enhance the effectiveness of writing explanations? |
topic | Research Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8062030/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33886680 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0250406 |
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