References

Multimedia Instruction: Lessons from Evaluation of a Theory-base Design part of SERC Print Resource Collection
This paper describes a theoretical model for stages in the cognitive comprehension of a machine from diagrams and accompanying text. From this model, the article discusses the process of designing ...

From Physical Models to Biomechanics: A Design-based Modeling Approach part of SERC Print Resource Collection
This study looks at children's understanding of the natural world through the design, building, testing, and evaluation of models. In this example, children were asked to build a model of the human ...

Building Functional Models: Designing an Elbow part of SERC Print Resource Collection
This study focuses on children's attempts to understand the function of their elbows through a process of model-based design. Via discussion, model building evaluation, and revision, children came to ...

Are Theories of Imagery Theories of Imagination? An Active Perception Approach to Conscious Mental Content part of SERC Print Resource Collection
This book considers three views of mental imagery: quasi-pictorial, description, and perceptual activity theories. This book advocates perceptual activity theory as an explanation for the phenomenon ...

Inquiry, Modeling, and Metacognition: Making Science Accessible to All Students part of SERC Print Resource Collection
This paper reports on the 1994 trials of the ThinkerTools Inquiry Curriculum which was designed to teach metacognitive skills to middle school science students. Despite sampling weaknesses, findings ...

Effect of Type of Practice in a Computer Aided Design Environment in Visualizing Three-Dimensional Objects from Two-Dimensional Orthographic Projections part of SERC Print Resource Collection
This study to determine the effect of practice in manipulating two- and three-dimensional wireframe images on a learner's ability to visualize 3D objects shows that those who received practice ...

Questions and Conjectures Concerning Models, Misconceptions and Spatial Ability part of SERC Print Resource Collection

Effect of student-generated diagrams versus student generated summaries on conceptual understanding of causal and dynamic knowledge in plate tectonics part of SERC Print Resource Collection
This paper compares learning between students reading an article on Plate Tectonics, reading the article and writing summaries while reading, and reading the article and drawing diagrams while ...

Cognitive Processes in Orienteering: the Interpretation of Contours and Responses to the Map as a Whole part of SERC Print Resource Collection

Using a landscape metaphor to represent a corpus of documents part of SERC Print Resource Collection
In information retrieval, documents are stored and categorized to allow for search and retrieval. Traditional techniques for interacting with this data hide much of the structure and complexity of ...