What is the effect of surprise, confusion, and confidence on

learning, and correcting misconceptions, within multimedia platforms ?

Process:

Refutation texts are texts which present accurate information in the

context of a common misconception. These texts known to be a better at

inducing conceptual change than standard expository text. We

investigated the means by which refutation texts correct misconceptions.

Participants were taught on a topic ripe with misconception: the seasons.

We measured learning transfer (i.e. the ability to apply learned abstract

concepts to novel questions and/or situations) as well as levels of

surprise, confusion, and confidence throughout the lesson.

Responsibilities:

In addition to running participants and scoring participants

responses in terms of learning transfer, I was responsible for creating

content for the learning transfer section of the experiment. The questions I

designed were curated to address participants ability to combine and

discriminate between critical concepts to answer novel questions as well

as correct former misconceptions.