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Stieff, Mike; Lira, Matthew E.; Scopelitis, Stephanie A. – Cognition and Instruction, 2016
The present article describes two studies that examine the impact of teaching students to use gesture to support spatial thinking in the Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) discipline of chemistry. In Study 1 we compared the effectiveness of instruction that involved either watching gesture, reproducing gesture, or reading…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Organic Chemistry, STEM Education, Research Universities
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Antle, Alissa N. – Behaviour & Information Technology, 2013
In order to better understand how to design hands-on child-computer interaction, we explore how different styles of interaction facilitate children's thinking while they use their hands to manipulate objects. We present an exploratory study of children solving a spatial puzzle task. We investigate how the affordances of physical, graphical…
Descriptors: Thinking Skills, Hands on Science, Cognitive Style, Problem Solving