The effect of gestured instruction on the learning of physical causality problems

Gesture

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 26-45

  Carlson, Crystal ^a   Jacobs, Steven A ^b   Perry, Michelle ^a   Church, Ruth Breckinridge ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^c NORTHEASTERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Adult learning; Instruction; Physics learning

Indexed keywords

EID: 84926457530     PISSN: 15681475     EISSN: 15699773     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1075/gest.14.1.02car     Document Type: Article

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