Fiddling, Pointing, Hovering, and Sliding: Embodied Actions with Three Evaluation Tools for Children
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Thirty-six preschoolers aged three to six rate Painting, Construction Blocks, and Musical Chairs with three tools: Five Degrees of Happiness, a Sticky Ladder, and a Paper Ladder. Ladders produce far more embodied behavior — fiddling, hovering, sliding — than the smiley scale; the paper ladder yields 21 sliding gestures and the sticky ladder yields the highest number of gestures. Ladders support revocable answers, clearer activity recall, and visible thinking; the smiley scale skews to extremes. Glue the paper ladder to A4 and make sticky materials robust; pair smileys with activity cutouts.
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