Effects of communication aids and strategies on cooperative teaching.

Abstract

The purpose of this study was to extend the research on the use of communication aids (types of visual aids used by persons to communicate information to one another) and strategies for using communication aids during cooperative teaching. College students were the participants. One half studied a knowledge map (a multirelational semantic map that displays spatial distributions of verbal information), and one half studied a text. Within each half, one third used a communication aid and were given a strategy, one third used a communication aid without a strategy, and one third did not use a communication aid and were given no strategy