Browsing by Author "Castro Alonso, Juan"

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Gender Effects When Learning Manipulative Tasks From Instructional Animations and Static Presentations

Wong, Mona; Castro Alonso, Juan; Ayres, Paul; Paas, Fred (IEEE, 2015)

Humans have an evolved embodied cognition that equips them to deal easily with the natural movements of object manipulations. Hence, learning a manipulative task is generally more effective when watching animations that ...
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Undesirable difficulty effects in the learning of high-element interactivity materials

Chen, Ouhao; Castro Alonso, Juan; Paas, Fred; Sweller, John (Frontiers Media, 2018)

According to the concept of desirable difficulties, introducing difficulties in learning may sacrifice short-term performance in order to benefit long-term retention of learning. We describe three types of desirable ...