Fig. 2: Boxplots comparing children’s play behaviours, engagement, and play session duration with toy percussion instruments (control) and loose parts. | Communications Psychology

Fig. 2: Boxplots comparing children’s play behaviours, engagement, and play session duration with toy percussion instruments (control) and loose parts.

From: Loose parts play encourages spontaneous science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) behaviours

Fig. 2

Panels A–D show children’s STEM behaviours for the control and loose parts sessions; only STEM behaviour variables that differed significantly between conditions are included. Panels E and F show children’s STEM Engagement Scores and play session duration for the control and loose parts sessions. Each box represents the middle 50% of measurements, whiskers indicate the lowest and highest 25%, and dots denote outliers. N = 60.

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