Contrasting the Cognitive Effects of Graphical and Sentential Logic Teaching: Reasoning, Representation and Individual Differences (1995)
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@MISC{Stenning95contrastingthe,
author = {Keith Stenning and Richard Cox and Jon Oberlander and Short Title Graphical},
title = {Contrasting the Cognitive Effects of Graphical and Sentential Logic Teaching: Reasoning, Representation and Individual Differences},
year = {1995}
}
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Abstract
Hyperproof is a computer program created by Barwise & Etchemendy for teaching logic using multimodal graphical and sentential representations. Elsewhere, we have proposed a theory of the cognitive impact of assigning information to different modalities. The theory predicts that the Hyperproof's devices for graphical abstraction will play a pivotal role in determining learning outcomes. Here, the claims are tested by a controlled comparison of the effects of teaching undergraduate classes using Hyperproof and a traditional syntactic teaching method. Results indicate that there is significant transfer from the logic courses to a range of verbal reasoning problems. There are also significant interactions between theoretically motivated pre-course aptitude measures and teaching method, and these interactions influence post-course reasoning performance in transfer domains. As well as being theoretically significant, the results provide support for the important practical conclusion that ind...
