This chapter proposes a framework to guide future research and practice in the
understudied area of scientific sensemaking—the liminal space of uncertainty with …

This article presents an extension to coordination class theory—a theory of conceptual
change that was built to capture an individual's learning in an interview setting. Here we …

In this exploratory mixed method study we investigated teachers' skill in and use of language-
based and enactive metaphor in their own learning and in their instructional design. This …

Abstract (Penultimate draft) Embodied Cognition holds that bodily (eg sensorimotor) states
and processes are directly involved in some higher-level cognitive functions (eg reasoning) …

Despite a growing interest in examining the learning processes involved in three-
dimensional science learning, crosscutting concepts are an understudied dimension. We …

Recent calls in education have emphasized the critical need for curricula in the sciences to
support student development of the general and disciplinary-specific practices that are …

This dissertation comprises three empirical studies of learning in university Physics
classrooms supported by networks of handheld devices. The first study investigates the …

The effects of incentives on engagement and learning were analyzed at multiple levels in an
immersive videogame for elementary science. One group of fifth-graders was offered …