Gesture effects on narrative comprehension are not moderated by total task difficulty or age when measured through free recall and specific questions¶

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q3 i? When measured through free recall and specific questions, the gesture effects on narrative comprehension were not moderated by total task difficulty or age. → Dargue 2020

Evidence¶

Dargue 2020¶

Dargue, N; Sweller, N. (2020). Learning Stories Through Gesture: Gesture's Effects on Child and Adult Narrative Comprehension. Educational Psychology Review, 32 (1). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10648-019-09505-0

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The abstract reports null moderation results across the two studies: the gesture effects, "measured through free recall and specific questions", were not moderated by total task difficulty or age. No effect sizes or test statistics are printed for these moderation tests.

"When measured through free recall and specific questions, these effects were not moderated by total task difficulty or age."

Discussion¶

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