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crl-25875	Deeke, Alexander; Binnie, Naomi	The Impact of Decorative Images on Student Performance: A Two-Year Study of Online Library Modules	2023	18	.pdf	application/pdf	7530	271	40	Decorative images are neutral material and are not directly relevant to the essential learning goals.15 Shigeko Takahashi distinguishes instructional and decorative images as a difference of function with the latter providing an aesthetic experience.16 Sascha Schneider et al. also defines decorative images as “pictures which do not provide information (or at least no learning-relevant information) but are included to enrich learning materials with pictures. FIGURE 1 Content Page from the Images Version FIGURE 2 Content Page from the Text-Only Version 380 College & Research Libraries May 2023 Decorative Images The authors chose images that did not have a clear instructional purpose nor were intended to be visually interesting or distracting, following similar definitions of decorative images found in the literature.39 Additionally, the chosen images fit the definition of online decorative images in user experience studies, as the authors considered them to be generic stock art images.40 The authors did not control for factors such as images containing humans or human characteristics, nor did they break the images down into particular subcategories as done elsewhere.41 Using the definitions found in the literature, the following criteria can be applied to im- ages that were selected for this study: • The chosen images appear to be a generic image that would be considered stock art.42 •	cache/crl-25875.pdf	txt/crl-25875.txt