Constructing Representations to Learn in Science Current research into student learning in
science has shifted attention from the traditional cognitivist perspectives of conceptual …

Compared with research on the role of student engagement with expert representations in
learning science, investigation of the use and theoretical justification of student-generated …

Science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) disciplines commonly illustrate
3D relationships in diagrams, yet these are often challenging for students. Failing to …

This book establishes a new theoretical and practical framework for multimodal disciplinary
literacy (MDL) fused with the subject-specific science pedagogies of senior high school …

The trend of today’ s learning goals for educational institutions is to produce pre-service
teachers who think critically. Critical thinking is a higher-order thinking domain that can be …

The aim of this study was to explore whether a representational approach could impact on
the scores that measure students' understanding of mechanics and their ability to reason …

There is growing interest in and understanding of the material basis of epistemic practices in
science, and consequently of the role of multimodal representation construction in reasoning …

Studies analyzing explanations that have been constructed by science students have found
that they were generally weak and lack necessary features. The goal of this study was to …

The development of students' reasoning and argumentation skills in school science is
currently attracting strong research interest. In this paper we report on a study where we …

This study seeks to understand children's perceptions and knowledge of endangered
Mexican primates. The black howler monkey (Alouatta pigra) is a charismatic species …