Description
Research study by Gorg Mallia in which fourth-grade students were given three versions (text-only, illustrated text, and comics) of a Maltese history text. Results: Recall of content of the comics treatment was very close to that of the illustrated text treatment, and both fared better than the text-only treatment. Interviews indicate that the sequence, aided by the character treatment, helped associative retention in ways that the stepped pictures of illustration might not do.
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