What is it about?
When learners trace out worked examples with the index finger, they performed better in the posttest. But why and how tracing promotes learning? This paper explore the reasons for this phenomenon and its generalizability.
Featured Image
Why is it important?
Our findings confirmed the robustness and positive effect of tracing gestures in classroom-based environments and provided certain implications for educational practice. The significant findings are that: a) the enhanced learning effect of tracing might not merely stem from the fact that tracing draws learners’ attention to key points. b) it might partly stem from the fact that it is action-based. c) instructing learners to trace out the relevant element is recommended, regardless of whether they use the index finger or the computer mouse.
Perspectives
Writing and revising this article was a great pleasure as it give us the opportunity to communicating with other researchers. We envisage this article as being useful to a broad spectrum of readers – those who design worked example for learning, those who use them for instruction to improve educational effectiveness. Hope this article is thought-provoking and will stimulate a closer and mutually benefcial dialogue among experts.
qi zhang
Liaoning Normal University
Read the Original
This page is a summary of: Tracing worked examples: effects on learning in geometry, Educational Psychology, November 2018, Taylor & Francis,
DOI: 10.1080/01443410.2018.1536256.
You can read the full text:
Contributors
The following have contributed to this page
