Teaching undergraduate students to read primary scientific literature (PSL) is cited as an
important goal for many science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) classes, given …

Vision and Change identifies science communication as one of the core competencies in
undergraduate biology. Visual representations are an integral part of science …

Two-dimensional illustration is used extensively to study and disseminate the results of
structural molecular biology. Molecular graphics methods have been and continue to be …

This study aims to examine the effects of digital science scrapbook on students’ science
visual literacy. Digital science scrapbook was designed to teach junior high school students …

The essence of molecular biology education lies in understanding of gene expression, with
subtopics including the central dogma processes, such as transcription and translation …

Backward Design is a well-known method for curricular development in which an instructor
first identifies desired learning ends and then “works backwards” to determine the necessary …

Representational competence (RC) is a set of skills to reflectively use a variety of
representations to draw inferences, make predictions, and support claims. Despite the …

The Organic and Biochemistry Readiness Instrument (OBRI) is a concept inventory to
assess essential concepts covered in general chemistry with an emphasis on the topics …

This paper reports on a case study of undergraduate biology students' drawing‐based
modeling and how this process plays out in naturalistic dialogues. Recent research has …

Modeling and visualization of the cellular mesoscale, bridging the nanometer scale of
molecules to the micrometer scale of cells, is being studied by an integrative approach. Data …