The expert item development team then reviewed all of the summary statements from each respondent for each item to determine issues with item comprehension, instructions, relevance and other general issues.
In Study 2, explicit relevance instructions to observe the important illustration were given to the participants.
It also strengthens the claim that by providing students with relevance instructions, their transfer skills can be enhanced (McCrudden, 2011; Sasson & Dori, 2012).
Educational implications underline the importance of relevance instructions for guiding readers toward the graphic and of the design of text-graphic pairing to sustain knowledge revision.
These researchers investigated the role of relevance instructions on cognitive transfer skills and methods for encouraging transfer between in-school and out-of-school learning.
In Experiment 1, we found evidence of a dual-task cost when wearing the GG and that that cost was not offset by relevance instructions pertaining to the secondary information; costs persisted even when participants were instructed to ignore the secondary information.
Thus, analysis of these topics holds an ecological relevance for instruction and learning in the K-12 history classroom.
This feature of gesture has particular relevance to instruction of spatial concepts such as those found in science and mathematics when often the topics are not visible.
Concerning the specific effect of reward, one behavioral study in which instruction about the future relevance was provided after an encoding session, also demonstrated that sleep selectively promotes the consolidation of information associated with a positive future outcome (for information with a similar level of initial encoding) (Fischer and Born, 2009).
6. Relevance is relevant.
