Development and Evaluation of a Decision Support Tool to Incorporate Redundancy in the Development of Instructional Materials

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dc.contributor.authorCox II, Larry Alendaen
dc.contributor.committeechairLockee, Barbara B.en
dc.contributor.committeememberScales, Glenda R.en
dc.contributor.committeememberPotter, Kenneth R.en
dc.contributor.committeememberBond, Mark Aaronen
dc.contributor.departmentEducation, Vocational-Technicalen
dc.date.accessioned2024-04-26T08:00:24Zen
dc.date.available2024-04-26T08:00:24Zen
dc.date.issued2024-04-25en
dc.description.abstractNovice Instructional Designers (IDs) often struggle to perform at the same level as experts. Specialized knowledge and experience are needed to discover the challenges and device appropriate solutions. Scaffold, guides, and heuristics can help novice when needing to perform tasks that require specialized knowledge. One common instructional design task requiring specialized knowledge is the development of instructional materials. Instructional message design (IMD) is a problem solving process to improve the quality of instructional materials through the application of research based principles. As this process is often not covered in novice IDs training, they will encounter more issues while attempting to address the challenges that come with creating instructional materials. Using a developmental study, a decision support tool was created to assist novice IDs with applying IMD, specifically the redundancy principle due to its ability to improve the communication within the materials. This study describes the operationalization of the principle, the design and development of the tool, expert review and revisions made based on their feedback, and the implications from the development of such a tool.en
dc.description.abstractgeneralNovices usually struggle to do tasks like experts. This is truer as the number of tasks and amount of specialized knowledge needed to do those tasks increases. Novices can perform these tasks if guides or tools are available. When creating courses, there are many tasks to accomplish like creating course materials. There are many rules to support the making of good, effective course materials. This study focused on designing and developing a tool to assist the novice when making course materials. The tool would help novices apply a rule to improve course materials so that students would have a better experience when using them.en
dc.description.degreeDoctor of Philosophyen
dc.format.mediumETDen
dc.identifier.othervt_gsexam:39952en
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10919/118672en
dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherVirginia Techen
dc.rightsIn Copyrighten
dc.rights.urihttp://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/en
dc.subjectredundancyen
dc.subjectcueingen
dc.subjectInstructional message designen
dc.subjectmaterial developmenten
dc.titleDevelopment and Evaluation of a Decision Support Tool to Incorporate Redundancy in the Development of Instructional Materialsen
dc.typeDissertationen
thesis.degree.disciplineCurriculum and Instructionen
thesis.degree.grantorVirginia Polytechnic Institute and State Universityen
thesis.degree.leveldoctoralen
thesis.degree.nameDoctor of Philosophyen

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