The Decorated Learning Environment: Simply Noise or an Opportunity for Incidental Learning?

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dc.contributor.authorGodwin, Karrie E.
dc.contributor.authorKaur, Freya
dc.date.accessioned2021-08-05T17:15:22Z
dc.date.available2021-08-05T17:15:22Z
dc.date.issued2021
dc.descriptionProceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Societyen_US
dc.description.abstractMaintaining attention during instruction is challenging as children face various sources of distraction (peers, announcements, noise) as well as competition from the visual environment itself. Prior studies found decorated environments promote off-task behavior and reduce learning. Additionally, many classroom displays are not relevant to ongoing instruction. This raises the possibility that increasing alignment between displays and instructional content may afford opportunities for incidental learning, reducing the detrimental effects of environmental off-task behavior. To investigate this possibility, participants completed a lesson in which alignment between the lesson content and displays was manipulated (relevant, educational but irrelevant, or no displays). Attention to the lesson and learning gains for content presented in the lesson and/or displays were measured. Results suggest younger children’s learning can benefit from displays that reinforce the lesson content. However, there was no evidence of incidental learning from displays without additional lesson support. Implications for classroom design are discussed.en_US
dc.description.urihttps://escholarship.org/uc/item/7h57r7r8en_US
dc.format.extent8 pagesen_US
dc.genreconference papers and proceedingsen_US
dc.identifierdoi:10.13016/m2ihcl-a17t
dc.identifier.citationGodwin, Karrie E.; Kaur, Freya; The Decorated Learning Environment: Simply Noise or an Opportunity for Incidental Learning?; Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, Volume 43, 2021; https://escholarship.org/uc/item/7h57r7r8en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11603/22315
dc.language.isoen_USen_US
dc.publisherCalifornia Digital Libraryen_US
dc.relation.isAvailableAtThe University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC)
dc.relation.ispartofUMBC Psychology Department Collection
dc.relation.ispartofUMBC Student Collection
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dc.subjectattentionen_US
dc.subjectclassroom environmenten_US
dc.subjectclassroom displaysen_US
dc.subjectincidental learningen_US
dc.subjectoff-task behavioren_US
dc.subjecton-task behavioren_US
dc.titleThe Decorated Learning Environment: Simply Noise or an Opportunity for Incidental Learning?en_US
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