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Text Vs. Graphics Formats for Online Instructions

Appendices

Experimental Materials
Raw Data, Statistical Calculations, and Survey.

Times for Car Model
Times for UFO Model
Times for Helicopter Model



Car Calculations



UFO Calculations



Helicopter Calculations



Number of Errors
NONEFEWMANY
Text Only41010
Graphics Only1851
Text and Graphics1940
Totals411911



Survey

Gender _____
Age _____

Do you wear glasses/contacts? _____
If yes, did you have them on when you were doing the experiment. ___

Are you color blind? ______

Years of Lego experience ___
Years of Web experience ___

Do you think you learn better visually, or by reading text?
(visually) 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 (text)

Which of the instruction presentation types did you prefer?
Text only __
Pictures only __
Pictures with text __

Is English your native language, or are you fluent in it?
Yes __
No __

Were there many terms in the text you didn't understand?
(none) 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 (many)

Were there many images in the pictures you didn't understand?
(none) 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 (many)

Please check the problems you thought of with the presentations.
__ Text was too small
__ Text was difficult to follow
__ Text was not descriptive enough
__ Text was too wordy
__ Text should have all been on one page (for the text only presentation)
__ Text at the bottom of pictures was distracting
__ Text at the bottom of pictures was unnecessary
__ Pictures were of too low a quality
__ Pictures did not explain steps clearly enough
__ Pictures should've all been on one page (for the pictures only presentation)
__ Pictures and text should have all been on one page (for the pictures with text presentation)
__ Pages took too long to load
__ Page control was too difficult
__ Monitor was too small/ of poor quality
__ Mouse style was not preferable
Other __________________________________________________

Are there any other suggestions on how you would improve this experiment?

Thank you for participating in our experiment.


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