Use of Visual Displays in Research and Testing

A volume in Current Perspectives on Cognition, Learning, and Instruction

Series Editors Gregory Schraw, University of Nevada, Las Vegas

and Matthew McCrudden, Victoria University of Wellington;

Visual displays play a crucial role in knowledge generation and communication. The purpose of the volume

is to provide researchers with a framework that helps them use visual displays to organize and interpret data;

and to communicate their findings in a comprehensible way within different research (e.g., quantitative,

mixed methods) and testing traditions that improves the presentation and understanding of findings.

Further, this book includes contributions from leading scholars in testing and quantitative, qualitative, and

mixed methods research, and results reporting. The volume's focal question is: What are the best principles

and practices for the use of visual displays in the research and testing process, which broadly includes the analysis, organization, interpretation, and

communication of data?

The volume is organized into four sections. Section I provides a rationale for this volume; namely, that including visual displays in research and

testing can enhance comprehension and processing efficiency. Section II includes addresses theoretical frameworks and universal design principles for

visual displays. Section III examines the use of visual displays in quantitative, qualitative, and mixed methods research. Section IV focuses on using

visual displays to report testing and assessment data.