vra 2013 pedagogical studies in visual literacy, vornholt
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Presented by Sarah Vornholt at the Annual Conference of the Visual Resources Association, April 3rd - April 6th, 2013, in Providence, Rhode Island. Session #13: Pedagogical Studies in Visual Literacy ORGANIZER/MODERATOR: Mark Pompelia, Rhode Island School of Design PRESENTERS: Diana Carns, University of Massachusetss Dartmouth "Constructing Meaning: Integrating Text, Images, and Critical Questioning" Ellen Petraits, Rhode Island School of Design "Visual Literacy for Visual Learners: Relating Research Skills to Haptic Skills" Kelly Smith, Lafayette College "Image Seeking and Use by Graduate History Students: Avenues to Incorporating Visual Literacy" Sarah Vornholt, University of Hawai'i at Manoa "Visualizing the Article: An Exploratory Study of Undergraduates' Educational Reactions to Images in Scholarly Articles" Following the popular Visual Literacy Case Studies session that premiered at the 2012 annual conference, this session follows that same purpose while expanding the definition of what it can mean while meeting in Providence, Rhode Island—the Creative Capital, a city that serves as a factory for and of non-traditional learners. As background: A term first coined in 1969, visual literacy, according to the Association of College and Research Libraries “Visual Literacy Competency Standards for Higher Education,” “is a set of abilities that enables an individual to effectively find, interpret, evaluate, use, and create images and visual media. Visual literacy skills equip a learner to understand and analyze the contextual, cultural, ethical, aesthetic, intellectual, and technical components involved in the production and use of visual materials. A visually literate individual is both a critical consumer of visual media and a competent contributor to a body of shared knowledge and culture.”TRANSCRIPT
Visualizing the Article
An Exploratory Study of Undergraduates’ Educational
Reactions to Images in Scholarly Articles
Sarah VornholtMLISc
University of Hawai’i at Manoa
Visual Resource Association 2013 Annual Conference – Pedagogical Studies in Visual Literacy
PROBLEM STATEMENT {why was this research done?}
Research AimThe aim of this research is to explore undergraduate underclassmen’s interactions with scholarly communication and in what manner the inclusion of images impact these students’ educational interest.
Research Question: What impact will images in scholarly articles have on undergraduate underclassmen?
METHODOLOGY {how the study was conducted}
Art History: Artist John Sloan
Business: Conscious Capitalism
History: Homelessness of African-Americans
Sociology: Fatherhood in Popular Culture
ARTICLE TOPICS
The Challenges of Sustaining Virtue John Sloan: Hairdresser’s
Window
John Sloan: Clown Making Up
Homelessness
in the
Depression
Years
and New Deal
Fathers on the Small Screen
Research Population• 34 underclass (freshman
and sophomore) undergraduate students from the University of Arizona campus in Tucson, Arizona
• Non-probability accidental sampling
University of Arizona Campus
RESULTS & DISCUSSION{what the study discovered and how the data was interpreted}
Participant DemographicsDemographic Data
• Average time per participant (1st segment) was 1:12.
• Quickest time 14 minutes• Birthdates range from
1992-1995• Mean year 1994
Generation Z
Learning Styles
Image Statements
AURAL LEARNERS“This article [John Sloan: Clown Making Up] was memorable, because of the image it instilled in my head.”
VISUAL LEARNERS“Aside from the content, I loved the pictures… The pictures were my favorite about the style because I am a visual person.”
“[Homelessness in the Colonies, Least Interesting] Because [I] really am unfamiliar with the topic [I] had to paint my own image and try to connect what they were saying with what it might have looked like.”
VERBAL LEARNERS “I like to see pictures while I read, it helps me understand what the article is about.”
Illusory Image
“It had pictures of families from a different point in history”
“It was a picture of what the character [sic] were doing”
“I think the book Goodnight [M]oon.”
From the article Fathers in Popular Picture Books:
CONCLUSION{what this all means and issues discovered along the way}
Final ThoughtsPractical Implications
• Decorative, passive images– In the true scholarly publishing
atmosphere, the images included would most likely act as evidence and be essential to the development of the argument.Conceptual
Possibilities• All learning styles are in one way or
another impacted by the inclusion of images in scholarly articles.
• Generations Z are the growing user population for academic resources.
Guess How Much I Love
You by Sam
McBratney, Ill. By Anita Jeram
Suggestions for Further Research• An archival study to provide a comprehensive
introduction to the amount of images published in scholarly journals from a variety of disciplines
• Conducting exploratory interviews with university students
• The replication of experiments by Gibson & Zillmann (2000), Zillmann, Knobloch & Yu (2001), Knobloch et al. (2003), and/or Sargent (2007)
• Future studies can investigate the illusory image phenomenon
