Flickering presentations do affect the judgment of learning but not the learning outcome

• Published in: Applied cognitive psychology Vol. 37; no. 4; pp. 889 - 898
• Main Authors: Ebersbach, Mirjam, Guschlbauer, Jana Antonia, Rummer, Ralf
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Bognor Regis Wiley 01.07.2023; Wiley Subscription Services, Inc
• Subjects: Between-subjects design; distance; Electronic Learning; Experiments; judgment of learning; Learning; learning disfluency effect; Metacognition; Outcomes of Education; Visual Aids; Visual Perception

We examined whether visual disfluency, as elicited by presenting text on flickering slides, affects learning positively and the global judgment of learning (JOL) negatively. Participants (N = 202 in Experiment 1, between‐subjects design; N = 53 in Experiment 2, within‐subjects design) saw in an onli...