Giving learning a helping hand: Finger tracing of temperature graphs on an iPad

Educational Psychology Review

Volumn 27, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 427-443

  Agostinho, Shirley ^a   Tindall Ford, Sharon ^a   Ginns, Paul ^b   Howard, Steven J ^a   Leahy, Wayne ^c   Paas, Fred ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WOLLONGONG   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^c MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^d ERASMUS UNIVERSITY ROTTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Cognitive load theory; Embodied cognition; iPads; Tablets; Tracing effect

Indexed keywords

EID: 84943352808     PISSN: 1040726X     EISSN: 1573336X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10648-015-9315-5     Document Type: Review

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