The subjects in this research were Year Seven (12 year old) students (n= 42) from two primary schools in Western Australia. Our prediction was that temporal speech cueing would better enable school-age students to focus their attention than those in the temporal text cueing group. Small sample sizes are not uncommon in experimental multimedia research (Austin, 1994; Bridgman, 1990; Carroll & Mack, 1987; Shell, 1990). Year seven students were chosen for the study because this is the final year of primary school and thus the results from the study were more likely to be relevant for both primary and secondary students. In addition, primary school students were more suitable because the primary school curriculum is more thematic and flexible readily allowing the addition of content and a variety of teaching situations.
展开▼
