Double Coding: 10 Evidence-Based Coaching Practices
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About 2 minutes
Try it here: pair one idea with a picture
Write the idea you want to remember in words, then add a simple picture and a real example.
Write the idea, a simple picture of it, and an example from your life.
Practices that may help
- Dual Coding: Learn With Words and Pictures Together
Dual coding, a theory developed by Allan Paivio, holds that the mind processes verbal and visual information through two partly separate channels, so combining words with relevant images gives a memory two routes instead of one. Controlled studies support that well-designed word-plus-picture material is learned better than words alone — provided the visuals carry meaning rather than decorate. - Cut redundant words when the visual already says it
Do not narrate a self-explanatory diagram word for word — it overloads, not reinforces.
Dual Coding: Learn With Words and Pictures Together - Use multiple modalities to encode information, not just one
Read about it, draw it, say it aloud, and use it in an example — all in one session.
The Learning Styles Myth: What the Research Actually Says - Put words and pictures together, not apart
Place labels on the diagram, not in a caption your eyes have to hunt for.
Dual Coding: Learn With Words and Pictures Together - Draw it yourself instead of copying
Generate your own rough sketch of an idea rather than viewing a finished diagram.
Dual Coding: Learn With Words and Pictures Together - Pair each idea with a meaningful visual
Attach a diagram, sketch, or image that carries the idea — not one that just decorates it.
Dual Coding: Learn With Words and Pictures Together - Keep verbal and visual channels separate
Avoid presenting spoken narration and dense text at the same time.
Working Memory: How Your Brain Holds Thoughts in Play - Eliminate split-attention effects
Keep physically or conceptually related information together so learners don’t pay a working memory tax to integrate them.
Cognitive Load Theory: Learning Within Working Memory Limits - Use spoken audio for explanations paired with visual diagrams
Split visual and auditory working memory resources to process more information than either channel alone can handle.
Cognitive Load Theory: Learning Within Working Memory Limits - Interleaved pattern practice
Mix multiple pattern types in a single session to sharpen discrimination between chunks.
Chunking: How Experts See What Beginners Miss
Does this sound like the set of challenges you might be facing?
- I figured more is better, so I cram in every word and every image at once and narrate the picture line by line
- I learn everything in just one channel
- My eyes keep bouncing between the diagram and the caption way off to the side, and by the time I find which part the text means I’ve lost the thread
- I neatly recopy the diagram out of the book and it feels like studying, but the second I close it I couldn’t reproduce it
- I read it all in words and almost nothing sticks
Related concerns
- Dual Coding
Dual coding, a theory developed by Allan Paivio, holds that the mind processes verbal and visual information through two partly separate channels, so combining words with relevant images gives a memory two routes instead of one. Controlled studies support that well-designed word-plus-picture material is learned better than words alone — provided the visuals carry meaning rather than decorate.
- Dual Coding Learn With Words And Pictures Together At Work
Dual coding, a theory developed by Allan Paivio, holds that the mind processes verbal and visual information through two partly separate channels, so combining words with relevant images gives a memory two routes instead of one. Controlled studies support that well-designed word-plus-picture material is learned better than words alone — provided the visuals carry meaning rather than decorate.
- Dual Coding Learn With Words And Pictures Together During Conflict
Dual coding, a theory developed by Allan Paivio, holds that the mind processes verbal and visual information through two partly separate channels, so combining words with relevant images gives a memory two routes instead of one. Controlled studies support that well-designed word-plus-picture material is learned better than words alone — provided the visuals carry meaning rather than decorate.
- Dual Coding Learn With Words And Pictures Together With My Partner
Dual coding, a theory developed by Allan Paivio, holds that the mind processes verbal and visual information through two partly separate channels, so combining words with relevant images gives a memory two routes instead of one. Controlled studies support that well-designed word-plus-picture material is learned better than words alone — provided the visuals carry meaning rather than decorate.
- Dual Coding Theory
Dual coding, a theory developed by Allan Paivio, holds that the mind processes verbal and visual information through two partly separate channels, so combining words with relevant images gives a memory two routes instead of one. Controlled studies support that well-designed word-plus-picture material is learned better than words alone — provided the visuals carry meaning rather than decorate.
- Audio Visual Learning
Split visual and auditory working memory resources to process more information than either channel alone can handle.
Use spoken audio for explanations paired with visual diagrams
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