Show Them or Involve Them? Two Organizations of Embodied Instruction

Show the data, don't conceal them.

Current standards of data presentation and analysis in biological journals often fall short of ideal. This is the first of a planned series of short articles, to be published in a number of journals, aiming to highlight the principles of clear data presentation and appropriate statistical analysis. This article considers the methods used to show data, in particular the value of the dot plot, an...

Wear them, forget them.

Don’t Just Tell Them, Show Them! Teachers Can Intentionally Alter their Instructional Gestures

Because gestures can ground abstract ideas in the physical world and make connections between ideas, they play a potentially important role in the classroom. This study examined whether teachers can intentionally alter their gesture production. Six teachers taught a brief mathematics lesson three times, once without any special instructions, once attempting to use gestures to link ideas, and on...

Off-label prescriptions: how to identify them, frame them, announce them and monitor them in practice?

Following the Mediator crisis and the passage of the Health and Safety Law of December 2011, off-label prescriptions are a real concern shared by all those involved in healthcare system. Off-label, in the strictest sense of the term, is defined as all prescriptions that do not correspond to the summary of product characteristics (SPC), particularly those that fail to comply with the indications...

Statistical Perspectives Show the data, don’t conceal them

Drummond GB, Vowler SL. Show the data, don’t conceal them. Adv Physiol Educ 35: 130–132, 2011; doi:10.1152/advan.00009.2011.—Current standards of data presentation and analysis in biological journals often fall short of ideal. This is the first of a planned series of short articles, to be published in a number of journals, aiming to highlight the principles of clear data presentation and approp...