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Atit, Kinnari; Rocha, Kelsey – Mind, Brain, and Education, 2021
Spatial skills are important for student success in STEM disciplines at the K-12 educational level. Teachers' spatial skills and feelings about completing spatial tasks influence their teaching as well as their students' spatial learning. However, the relation between teachers' spatial skills and their spatial anxiety is not well understood. Here…
Descriptors: Spatial Ability, Anxiety, Teaching Methods, STEM Education
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Glenberg, Arthur; Willford, Jonathan; Gibson, Bryan; Goldberg, Andrew; Zhu, Xiaojin – Scientific Studies of Reading, 2012
Reading provides information across the curriculum. Thus, to the extent that fundamental (i.e., generalizable) reading comprehension strategies can be taught, the benefits should be found in multiple domains. To test this claim, children in the third and fourth grades read by simulating text content using the two-part, embodied "Moved by Reading"…
Descriptors: Reading Achievement, Reading Improvement, Reading Comprehension, Reading Strategies
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Marley, Scott C.; Levin, Joel R.; Glenberg, Arthur M. – Contemporary Educational Psychology, 2007
The primary purpose of the present study was to determine whether recent findings documenting the benefits of text-related motor activity on young children's memory for reading passages [Glenberg, A. M., Gutierrez, T., Levin, J. R., Japuntich, S., & Kaschak, M. (2004). Activity and imagined activity can enhance young readers' reading…
Descriptors: Visual Aids, Toys, Memory, Learning Problems