Comprehensive Individualized Curriculum and Instructional Design

Mayer’s Instructional Design Principles as Rubric for Evaluating Multimedia Instructional Materials Name: Research-Based Instructional Design Principles (Mayer, 2009, 2008) Rubric for Evaluating Multimedia Instructional Materials Coherence Principle ES = .97, 14 Studies 1 -----------------------------------------2----------------------------------------3 Includes Excess Some Irrelevant Content Standard Met Irrelevant Signaling Principle ES = .52, 6 Studies 1 -----------------------------------------2----------------------------------------3 Lacks Explicit Cues Some Cues Provided Standard Met Redundancy Principle ES = .72, 5 Studies 1 -----------------------------------------2----------------------------------------3 Extensive Text Occasional Redundant Text Standard Met Spatial Contiguity Principle ES = 1.12, 5 Studies 1 -----------------------------------------2----------------------------------------3 Words and Pictures Some Content Not Standard Met Not Near Each Other Closely Aligned Temporal Contiguity Principle ES = 1.31, 8 Studies 1 -----------------------------------------2----------------------------------------3 Audio & Text Some Misalignment Standard Met Misalignment Modality Principle ES = 1.02, 17 Studies Does Not Use Audio/Visuals Uses Audio/Visuals Segmenting Principle ES = .98, 3 Studies 1 -----------------------------------------2----------------------------------------3 Excessive Length Contains Explicit Breaks Standard Met & No Explicit Breaks But is Excessively Long Pretraining Principle ES = .85, 5 Studies 1 -----------------------------------------2----------------------------------------3 No Advance Organizer Limited Use of Standard Met Or Hierarchy of Content Pretraining Strategies Multimedia Principle ES = 1.39, 11 Studies Not Multimedia Standard Met Personalization Principle ES = 1.11, 11 Studies* Not Personalized Standard Met Voice Principle * 1 -----------------------------------------2----------------------------------------3 Formal Narration Some Formal Standard Met Some Conversational Image Principle * 1 -----------------------------------------2----------------------------------------3 Images Are Vague &/or Most Images Clear Standard Met Blurry Figure 2. Mayer’s Instructional Design Principles as Rubric for Evaluating Multimedia Instructional Materials. Note – Personalization Principle’s 11 Studies Includes the Voice and Image Principles. They are separated here for the purpose of guiding instructional design. 122