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2025-04-27
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Some undergraduate science courses earn a reputation as “gatekeeping” courses due to their nature as prerequisite courses with a high drop/fail/withdraw rate. One such course is anatomy and physiology for nursing and kinesiology students. Students often struggle with this material due to the volume and complexity of the content. Mastering the content in this foundational course is important for success in upper-level coursework.
Gestures are commonly used by teachers and students when teaching and learning, but limited work has been done examining their effect on student outcomes in the classroom, especially at the postsecondary level. This study examines the role of gestures in teaching and learning in an undergraduate anatomy and physiology course on a unit covering the muscular and nervous tissues. Incorporation of gestures helped students score significantly higher in a multiple-choice and free response posttest compared to the non-gestures section.
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