M Stieff, D Uttal - Educational Psychology Review, 2015 - Springer
Spatial training has been indicated as a possible solution for improving Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) achievement and degree attainment …
National Research Council - 2012 - nap.nationalacademies.org
Discipline-Based Education Research: Understanding and Improving Learning in Undergraduate Science and Engineering | The National Academies Press Skip to main content Navigate to Help …
HA Schweingruber, NR Nielsen, SR Singer - 2012 - books.google.com
The National Science Foundation funded a synthesis study on the status, contributions, and future direction of discipline-based education research (DBER) in physics, biological …
People spontaneously produce gestures during speaking and thinking. The authors focus here on gestures that depict or indicate information related to the contents of concurrent …
N Graulich - Chemistry Education Research and Practice, 2015 - pubs.rsc.org
Organic chemistry education is one of the youngest research areas among all chemistry related research efforts, and its published scholarly work has become vibrant and diverse …
The ability to use representations of molecular structure to predict the macroscopic properties of a substance is central to the development of a robust understanding of …
In representation-rich domains such as organic chemistry, students must be facile and accurate when translating between different 2D representations, such as diagrams. We …
D DeSutter, M Stieff - Cognitive research: principles and implications, 2017 - Springer
Spatial thinking is a vital component of the science, technology, engineering, and mathematics curriculum. However, to date, broad development of learning environments that …
MM Cooper, M Stieff, D DeSutter - Topics in cognitive science, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Sketching as a scientific practice goes beyond the simple act of inscribing diagrams onto paper. Scientists produce a wide range of representations through sketching, as it is tightly …