Underlining and highlighting
Overview
- Influence: Underlining and highlighting
- Domain: Student Learning Strategies
- Sub-Domain: Learning strategies
- Potential to Accelerate Student Achievement: Potential to accelerate
- Influence Definition: This involves underlining or highlighting the main ideas, or how ideas are related, and aims to help the reader with recall and seeing the links between parts of the text.
Evidence
- Number of meta-analyses: 3
- Number of studies: 128
- Number of students: 2,070
- Number of effects: 226
- Weighted mean effect size: 0.42
- Robustness index: 3
Meta-Analyses
| Journal Title | Author | First Author's Country | Article Name | Year Published | Variable | Number of Studies | Number of Students | Number of Effects | Effect Size |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Educational Psychology Review | Ponce, Mayer, & Méndez | USA | Effects of Learner-Generated Highlighting and Instructor-Provided Highlighting on Learning from Text: A Meta-Analysis | 2022 | Learner highlighting | 36 | 0 | 85 | 0.36 |
| Educational Research Review | Dignath, Buettner, & Langfeldt | USA | How can primary school students learn self-regulated learning strategies most effectively?: A meta-analysis on self-regulation training programmes. | 2022 | Teacher highlighting | 36 | 0 | 85 | 0.44 |
| Nature: Science of Learning | Hattie & Donoghue | Australia | Learning strategies: A synthesis and conceptual model | 2016 | Underlining | 56 | 2,070 | 56 | 0.44 |
| TOTAL/AVERAGE | 128 | 2,070 | 226 | 0.41 | |||||