Student Gestures Aid Penetrative Thinking
| Autor: | Kinnari Atit, Kristin M. Gagnier, Thomas F. Shipley |
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| Rok vydání: | 2015 |
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Structure (mathematical logic)
05 social sciences Object based 050301 education 050105 experimental psychology Education Block (programming) Embodied cognition Pedagogy Stem learning Mathematics education General Earth and Planetary Sciences 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences Spatial thinking Psychology 0503 education Gesture |
| Zdroj: | Journal of Geoscience Education. 63:66-72 |
| ISSN: | 2158-1428 1089-9995 |
| Popis: | Penetrative thinking, or the ability to visualize and reason about the interior structure of an object based on what is visible on the surface, is critical for success in many science disciplines, especially the geosciences, where inferences about the Earth must be made from what can be seen on the surface. A growing body of research has shown that spatial thinking skills are related to achievement in the science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) disciplines; thus, improving such skills may enhance STEM learning. In the current study, we examined whether using gestures, embodied representations of three-dimensional (3D) spatial relationships, facilitates penetrative thinking. Participants in the gesture group used their hands to explain how they would build 3D versions of geologic block diagrams from flat layers of Play-Doh. Participants in the gesture-prohibited group were asked to explain verbally, without using their hands, how they would build 3D versions of geologic block diag... |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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