Imagery
Overview
- Influence: Imagery
- Domain: Student Learning Strategies
- Sub-Domain: Learning strategies
- Potential to Accelerate Student Achievement: Potential to accelerate
- Influence Definition: A sensory experience in which mental images arise, often independent of external stimulation. Such imagery is typically understood as visual, but educational researchers have also explored the use of other sensory "images": sound, taste, smell, and touch. Imagery has long been a tool in education—think here of Plato's Myth of the Cave—because images evoke and enrich complex meanings that are otherwise linguistically inexpressible.
Evidence
- Number of meta-analyses: 2
- Number of studies: 147
- Number of students: 2,043
- Number of effects: 194
- Weighted mean effect size: 0.55
- 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dissertation | Lavery | New Zealand | Self-regulated learning for academic success: An evaluation of instructional techniques | 2008 | Imagery | 12 | 991 | 59 | 0.45 |
| Nature: Science of Learning | Hattie & Donoghue | Australia | Learning strategies: A synthesis and conceptual model | 2016 | Imagery | 135 | 1,052 | 135 | 0.56 |
| TOTAL/AVERAGE | 147 | 2,043 | 194 | 0.51 | |||||