Arm-body training reduces letters written under dictation relative to the other conditions¶

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Subclaims¶

q4 i1 Arm-body training significantly reduced the likelihood of scoring high on letters written under dictation (d = -.382 in the combined model). → Fernando Núñez-Regueiro 2024

Evidence¶

Fernando Núñez-Regueiro 2024¶

Fernando Núñez-Regueiro, Natacha Boissicat, Fanny Gimbert, Céline Pobel-Burtin, Marie-Caroline Croset, Marie-Line Bosse, and Cécile Nurra. (2024). Involving the Body to Improve Letter Knowledge and Script: An Experimental Study in French Kindergarten. Educational Psychology Review. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10648-024-09923-9

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Ordinal regression on letters written under dictation (6-point task) in the RCT; in the parsimonious model combining pencil-and-paper and arm training, the arm-body group was "two times less likely to score high on post-tests" (OR = 0.500, d = -.382).

"Only the effect of arm-body training was significant (b = -0.462, OR = 0.629, d = -.256, p = .043), indicating that students in this group were 59% less likely to score high on the number of correctly written letters under dictation on post-tests"

Discussion¶

Learner Variables¶

• Alphabet Knowledge and Print Awareness — outcome: instruction changes it

Related Claims¶

• Initial skills moderate embodied training effects: arm-body training harms low-skilled students on dictation and legibility, and benefits high-skilled students on dictation — related
• Arm training with nested handwriting exercises yields the greatest overall acquisitions in letter knowledge and script, while arm-body training reduces them — related
• Arm-body training improves overall legibility of letter script while pencil-and-paper training reduces it — related
• No training condition affects letter script stroke direction — related