Teachers' Gestures and How They Matter

RB Church, M Perry, MA Singer… - Topics in cognitive …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
How do teachers' gestures influence students' learning? This article reviews research
investigating the role of gestures in communication, focusing on teachers' communication …

Instructed hand movements affect students' learning of an abstract concept from video

I Zhang, KB Givvin, JM Sipple, JY Son… - Cognitive …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Producing content‐related gestures has been found to impact students' learning, whether
such gestures are spontaneously generated by the learner in the course of problem‐solving …

[HTML][HTML] Watching a hands-on activity improves students' understanding of randomness

IY Zhang, MC Tucker, JW Stigler - Computers & Education, 2022 - Elsevier
Introductory statistics students struggle to understand randomness as a data generating
process, and especially its application to the practice of data analysis. Although modern …

Modeling first: Applying learning science to the teaching of introductory statistics

JY Son, AB Blake, L Fries, JW Stigler - Journal of Statistics and …, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
Students learn many concepts in the introductory statistics course, but even our most
successful students end up with rigid, ritualized knowledge that does not transfer easily to …

How do students reason about statistical sampling with computer simulations? An integrative review from a grounded cognition perspective

S Gok, RL Goldstone - Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications, 2024 - Springer
Interactive computer simulations are commonly used as pedagogical tools to support
students' statistical reasoning. This paper examines whether and how these simulations …

The Better Book approach for education research and development

JW Stigler, JY Son, KB Givvin, AB Blake… - Teachers College …, 2020 - journals.sagepub.com
Background/Context Despite advances in the learning sciences, a persistent gap remains
between research and practice. Purpose/Objective/Research Question/Focus of Study In this …

Watching videos of a drawing hand improves students' understanding of the normal probability distribution

I Zhang, XH Guo, JY Son, IA Blank, JW Stigler - Memory & Cognition, 2024 - Springer
Understanding normal probability distributions is a crucial objective in mathematics and
statistics education. Drawing upon cognitive psychology research, this study explores the …

Not all flipped classes are the same: Using learning science to design flipped classrooms

A Lawson, C Davis, J Son - … of the Scholarship of Teaching and …, 2019 - scholarworks.iu.edu
The flipped classroom has recently become a popular method used in both higher education
and K-12 classrooms, yet research has not consistently demonstrated clear benefits of …

Gestural metaphorical scenarios and coming out narratives

T Dyrmo - Metaphor and the Social World, 2022 - jbe-platform.com
This article extends the framework of metaphorical scenarios proposed by Musolff (,) by
adding a gestural component. Coming out videos, serving as the source of data for the …

Co-speech gestures in enhancing engineering proposal presentations: a multimodal analysis of ESP spoken discourse

JCP Lee - ESP Today, 2024 - dr.ntu.edu.sg
Though gestures can convey the meaning of the message and the thoughts of the speakers,
there are limited research studies on how co-speech gestures are used in presenting …