Akaygun | | Chemistry Education Research and Practice* | Mixed | 523 | S | Chemistry | ChemSense and K-Sketch | Effectively revealed students’ prior knowledge, an important tool for investigating students’ mental models, helps learners to improve their understanding. |
Atalay and Belet Boyacı | | International Electronic Journal of Elementary Education* | Mixed | 9 | E | Science | - | In SMA production process, students utilize and, in the process, develop creativity and innovation, critical thinking and problem solving, collaboration, and communication skills. |
Berg et al. | | Chemistry Education Research and Practice* | Qualitative | 37 | S-T | Chemistry | IStopmotion for iPad | The SMA task enabled students to engage in reasoning concerning both the observations and the sub-micro-level models and how they relate to each other. |
Bogiages and Hitt | | The Science Teacher* | Qualitative | - | S | Biology | Slideshow software | Highly engaging, increase students’ interest, and a more in-depth understanding of the content. |
Brown et al. | | Teaching Science: Australian Science Teachers Journal* | Qualitative | 16 | E | Physics | - | The social construction of knowledge, fostering substantive discourse, scientific literacy, and engagement. |
Chang et al. | | Journal of Science Education* | Quantitative | 271 | M | Chemistry | Chemation | Designing animations, coupled with peer evaluation, is effective at improving student learning with instructional animation. |
Church et al. | | International Journal of Engineering Education* | Qualitative | - | S | Physics | SAM animation | Deeper reflection, conceptual understanding, representations of mental models, revealing the preconceptions, and stimulate discussion. |
Ekici and Ekici | 2014 | European Journal of Social Sciences Education and Research* | Qualitative | 49 | S-T | Biology | Windows Movie Maker/SAM animation | Pros: Facilitates learning, increases creativity, self-confidence, attendance to the lesson, cooperation awareness, and technological ability. Cons: Time consuming and the process is troublesome. |
Ekici et al. | | The Eurasia Proceedings of Educational & Social Sciences | Quantitative | 83 | S-T | Biology | Windows Movie Maker/SAM animation | Positive influence on students’ learning. No effect on retention. |
Fleer and Hoban | | Australasian Journal of Early Childhood* | Qualitative | 25 | P-E | Multi-domain** | Windows Movie Maker/SAM animation | Enacts Intentional teaching, stimulate discussion, provides a sense of purpose for exploring scientific concepts and conceptual development of the child, and scientific self-awareness. |
Hoban | | Teaching Science: Australian Science Teachers Journal* | Qualitative | 24 | S-T | Biology | QuickTime Pro | Seven steps procedure improves students’ engagement in science lessons. |
Hoban | | Contemporary Issues in Technology and Teacher Education* | Qualitative | 10 | S-T | Multi-domain | QuickTime Pro/iStopMotion | Introducing four Phases of developing a Slowmation, generates an authentic “need to know,” engagement, and a real purpose of understanding. |
Hoban and Ferry | | Proceedings of the 2006 World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education | Qualitative | 2 | S-T | Biology | QuickTime Pro | Six steps designing procedures, adoptable for school contexts. |
Hoban and Nielsen | | Teaching Science: Australian Science Teachers Journal* | Qualitative | – | E | Biology | – | Introducing 5Rs designing approach, promote learning and engagement in learning |
Hoban and Nielsen | | Research in Science Education Journal* | Qualitative | 24 | S-T | Multi-domain | Windows Movie Maker/SAM animation | Serves as an explanatory resource, promotes discussion about alternative conceptions, collective sharing, and inquiry. |
Hoban and Nielsen | | International Journal of Science Education * | Qualitative | 3 | S-T | Biology | Windows Movie Maker/SAM animation | Fosters a cumulative semiotic progression, promotes learning, encourages conceptual change, revises alternative conceptions, and provides social interaction. |
Hoban and Nielsen | | Journal of Teaching and Teacher Education* | Qualitative | 3 | S-T | Physics | Windows Movie Maker/SAM animation | Promotes discussion through four key affordances, facilitates scientific reasoning, and resolving alternative conceptions. |
Hoban et al. | | Proceedings of the 2007 Australian Teacher Education Association National Conference | Qualitative | 10 | S-T | Multi-domain | QuickTime Pro | Pros: Widespread use in different classes (science, Math, Social science…) Cons: Crowded curriculum, time constraints, access to technology, and classroom management are the most difficulties. |
Hoban et al. | | Proceeding of World Conference on Educational Multimedia, Hypermedia and Telecommunications | Qualitative | 29 | S-T | Multi-domain | SAM animation | Increases in knowledge during the creation phase and review phase. |
Hoban et al. | | Proceedings of The Future of Learning Designs Conference- University of Wollongong | Qualitative | 3 | S-T | Biology | - | Influences from multiple modes of representing the content at each phase. The actual learning process is much more dynamic and iterative with social interaction in all phases. |
Hoban et al. | 2011 | Journal of Research in Science Teaching* | Qualitative | 3 | S-T | Biology | QuickTime Pro | Progression of meaning in the 5Rs model is not strictly linear, includes recursive checking of information, final artifact illuminates alternative conceptions. |
Jablonski et al. | | The Journal of the Pacific Circle Consortium for Education* | Quantitative | 100 | M | Biology | Windows Movie Maker | Improves learning, provides collaborative learning, promotes sharing of information, and has a motivational effect. |
Kamp and Deaton | | Journal of science activities* | Qualitative | - | S | Biology | iStopMotion (iPad) | Enjoyable, promote learning and addresses Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) |
Karakoyun and Yapici | | International Education Studies* | Qualitative | 12 | S-T | Biology | Stopmotion Studio (mobile app) | Development of the twenty-first century skills such as creativity, communication and cooperation skills, information literacy and research skills, and technology and media literacy skills. |
Keast et al. | | Brunei International Journal of Science and Mathematics Education | Qualitative | 72 | S-T | Multi-domain | - | Identifies alternative conceptions, works best in a series of lessons, most effective with small, self-contained, and easy to chunk and represents concepts, promotes computer skills, creative writing, group work; and, research. |
Kidman | | Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences* | Mixed | 26 | S-T | Multi-domain | - | A conceptual shift of using ICT’s for learning science rather than for doing science facilitates transformative learning and epistemic change through collaborative inquiry. |
Kidman and Hoban | | Proceeding of NARST annual international conference (Grand Challenges and Great Opportunities in Science Education) * | Qualitative | 8 | M-L | Biology | - | Stimulates self-generated questions and meaning arises the need for attention to detail, the complexity of the topic affects the nature of questions, topics with greater representation effort causes cognitive load which leads to focus on the representation, rather than scientific content. |
Kidman et al. | | Proceedings of 2nd International STEM in Education Conference. | Qualitative | 55 | S-T | Biology | - | Deeper conceptual and pedagogical learning through small groups of learners, Deeper learning will not occur unless there is this recursive checking of information, Conceptual change may be evident as a cause of dissatisfaction about the representation of a concept. |
Loughran et al. | | Asia-Pacific Forum on Science Learning and Teaching* | Qualitative | 5 | S-T | Multi-domain | - | It provides the opportunity for seeing into learners’ alternative conceptions, which creates multiple opportunities for pedagogical responses. |
Macdonald and Hoban | | The International Journal of Learning* | Mixed | 14 | S-T | Physics | QuickTime pro | Science content knowledge is increased in the process of creating, peer, or content expert review and modifying. |
Mills et al. | | Research in Science Education* | Mixed | 95 | M | Geology | MyCreate (iPad app) | Provides opportunities to work and learn in active, hands-on and collaborative ways; to exercise creativity; and to engage with technology, increases triggered the situational interest, maintained situational interest feeling and individual interest in learning science. |
Mills et al. | | Journal of Science Education and Technology* | Mixed | 52 | M | Geology | MyCreate (iPad app) | Enhances students’ conceptual understanding by increasing scientific conceptions and decreasing in alternative conceptions. It affords teachable moments that addressed students’ conflicting ideas. |
Nordin and Osman | | Journal of Education in Science, Environment and Health* | Quantitative | 70 | S | Physics | Windows Movie Maker | Effective in inculcating collaborative problem-solving skills among the students |
Nielsen and Hoban | | Journal of Research in Science Teaching* | Qualitative | 3 | S-T | Physics | - | Increase the number of elements underpinning their understanding of subject matter, improve learning by generating self-explanation, provide the opportunity to articulate and challenge their prior conceptions. |
Paige et al. | | Australian Journal of Teacher Education* | Quantitative | 31 | S-T | Science | iPhone/iPads app | Enhancing conceptual understanding, provide authentic, rich and creative opportunities for novice teachers to engage in a rigorous form of twenty-first-century skills, such as ways of thinking, ways of working, and tools for working, |
Peter et al. | | Proceeding of EdMedia + Innovate Learning Conference | Quantitative | 171 | S-T | Physics | - | Improving conceptual understanding by reducing student misconceptions, significantly higher mean motivational scores than Paper Sketch group. |
Vratulis et al. | | Journal of Teaching and Teacher Education* | Qualitative | 35 | S-T | Multi-domain | QuickTime Pro | Designing and developing Slowmation as a disruptive pedagogy serves as an instructional resource, student teachers did not encourage their pupils to design and make Slowmation projects. |
Wilkerson et al. | | Journal of Science Education and Technology* | Qualitative | 5 | E | Physics | SiMSAM | Iterative modeling activity across multiple representational technologies (drawing, Slowmation, and simulation) can sustain and deepen student learning and engagement. |
Wilkerson et al. | | International Journal of the Learning Sciences* | Qualitative | 28 | E | Physics | SiMSAM | Groups that developed increasingly mechanistic, explanatory models focused on elements, movement, and interactions (namely epistemic game) during multiple representations, i.e., drawing, Slowmation, and simulation. |
Wishart | | School Science Review* | Mixed | 90 | M-L | Multi-domain | Windows Movie maker/PowerPoint/Flip-video cameras | Watching other students’ finished animation motivates most of the students to learn science. The discussion was perceived by students to support their understanding. |
Wishart | | Journal of Research on Technology in Education* | Qualitative | 15 | S-T | Multi-domain | Windows Movie maker/iMotionHD | The opportunities created for discussion, both with peers and teacher-led, are the most likely to promote learning. |
Yaseen and Aubusson | | Journal of Research in Science Education* | Mixed | 28 | S | Chemistry | K-Sketch | The students improved their conceptual understanding through developing an animation, peer-discussion, and comparing their animations with expert-generated ones. |