Artefact Six Evaluation

The sixth artefact produced involved two groups of kinesthetic and visual learners. One group were asked to look at information on an existing website and then complete a quiz to test their knowledge. The second group looked at the same information on an interactive Flash page where the information was more broken up and they were able to move sections of information around to suit themselves. This group was then also asked to complete a quiz. The aim of this artefact was to find out if on-screen interactivity could truly increase learning and understanding amongst kinesthetic and visual learners and why. In the second group the users arranged the information according to their personal preference, some were completely random, other reasons included just spacing out the information and arranging it by important and then fun facts. The results from the quiz were that group one averaged only five out of ten, and group two, eight out of ten. This clearly shows that the learners using the interactive tool were able to absorb the information more effectively than the learners reading static text. The feedback received from group two was extremely positive and helped influence the final conclusion. It is clear that on-screen interactivity can help visual and kinesthetic learners by allowing each learner to be individual, there is no one-way that is best for people to learn and by giving the control to the learner they can decide what is best for themselves. It has been discovered that the act of moving information around on a screen can be just as effective as arranging information physically and this requires the learner to look at information more carefully and can help to promote understanding, sometimes without the learner even being aware.