Investigating the interactive effects of cognitive preference and online museum exhibits: Validating the assessment instruments

Information and communications technology (ICT) tools have completely altered the design of many museums' exhibits. As learning from museum exhibits is an important part of museum agenda, the curators now adopt many of the unique educational advantages offered by the Web environment. Clearly, giving consideration to the wide range of their visitors¿ cognitive differences is challenging these curators when planning their exhibits. There are interactive effects expected between their visitor's cognitive preferences and the exhibit's display formats on the quality of the resulting human-computer interactions (HCI). The advent of this rapid growth of web-mediated technology extends the opportunity to fulfill exhibit facilitation. This conference paper discusses the development of cognitive performance assessment instruments designed to identify the interactive effects of students' cognitive performance in online museum learning experiences.