Gesture analysis for physics education researchers

Systematic observations of student gestures can not only fill in gaps in students’ verbal expressions, but can also offer valuable information about student ideas, including their source, their novelty to the speaker, and their construction in real time. This paper provides a review of the research...

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Main Author: Rachel E. Scherr
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: American Physical Society 2008-01-01
Series:Physical Review Special Topics. Physics Education Research
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Online Access:http://link.aps.org/abstract/PRSTPER/v4/e010101
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description Systematic observations of student gestures can not only fill in gaps in students’ verbal expressions, but can also offer valuable information about student ideas, including their source, their novelty to the speaker, and their construction in real time. This paper provides a review of the research in gesture analysis that is most relevant to physics education researchers and illustrates gesture analysis for the purpose of better understanding student thinking about physics.
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Gesture analysis for physics education researchers
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Gesture analysis
title Gesture analysis for physics education researchers
title_full Gesture analysis for physics education researchers
title_fullStr Gesture analysis for physics education researchers
title_full_unstemmed Gesture analysis for physics education researchers
title_short Gesture analysis for physics education researchers
title_sort gesture analysis for physics education researchers
topic Student gestures
Gesture analysis
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