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Text Vs. Graphics Formats for Online Instructions

Credits

Ed Donaldson: Provided primary materials (building blocks and instructions). Scanned and processed pictorial instructions. Wrote text instructions. Ran experiments for pilot and final test data.

Jared Lake: Webmaster for experiment. Created and maintained web pages. Ran experiments for pilot and final test data.

Laura Shoemaker: Additional research in associated experiments. Wrote initial proposal and final summary. Processed pilot and final data into statistics and graphical display. Ran experiments for final test data. Wrote/revised the project write-up for the web pages.

Job Slavin: Researched previous experiments on similar topics. Wrote text instructions. Ran experiments for pilot and final test data. Wrote/revised the project write-up for the web pages.

All experimenters participated in the feedback and fine-tuning of the experiment. This included concept, experiment design, instruction editing, gathering subjects, and administering the experiment.


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