Preliminary data from the use of multimedia teaching aids indicate that this interactive program positively impacts students' learning by giving the user control over the learning path, supports higher order thinking skills, and provides the opportunity for individualizing information and progress. In addition, the health and fitness instruction within this program and repurposed CD has proven effective in that it imparts information with an instructor or as a stand-alone tutorial in an easy to understand, motivating format, yet it focuses that format so that time and resources are both optimized. Formal research results indicate that students rate the SPT approach higher than a 3.5 on a 5.0 Likert scale and the software higher than a 4.0 on a 5.0 Likert scale. One important cognitive process is understanding. Before learning can take place, understanding must occur.
Understanding is crucial in being able to relate and succeed in the world.