References

Cognitive map-design research in the twentieth century: Theoretical and empirical approaches part of SERC Print Resource Collection
This exploratory essay delves into the history and problems of cognitive map design. Cognitive-map design research has the goal of understanding cognition in order to improve the design and use of ...

Cognitive and usability issues in geovisualization part of SERC Print Resource Collection
This article highlights the progression of visualizing geospatial data and the need for these to fit within a cognitive framework. Developments in hardware and software have led to (and will continue ...

Information visualization part of SERC Print Resource Collection
Information visualization is the process of uncovering fundamental relations in large volumes of data, which will support insight into them. This book focuses on the problem of creating effective and ...

The ecological approach to text visualization part of SERC Print Resource Collection

Visuospatial Reasoning part of SERC Print Resource Collection
Four types of mental spaces are considered in this article, differentiated by the functions that they serve. The space of the body subserves proprioception and action; it is divided by body parts, ...

A new interactive class and lab for undergraduate non-geology majors on Earth, climate, and life through time part of SERC Print Resource Collection
Earth, Climate, and Life through Time is an Earth history course with a lab. Earth history is taught three times: first emphasizing the solid Earth and plate tectonics, again emphasizing the ...

Role Playing in Education part of SERC Print Resource Collection
This article by Dr. Adam Blatner discusses role-playing in education. Role playing, a derivative of a sociodrama, is a method for exploring the issues involved in complex social situations. It may be ...

The relevance of role playing in environmental education part of SERC Print Resource Collection
This article published by the Commission on Biology Education summarizes a study of the relevance of role-playing in environmental education. The researchers created different role-plays and analyzed ...

Role-Playing Replaces Spreadsheets in College Accounting Courses part of SERC Print Resource Collection
This January 1997 Chronicle of Higher Education article discusses the use of role-playing in accounting classes. The article chronicles accounting students at University of Illinois while they tackle ...

Situated cognition and the culture of learning part of SERC Print Resource Collection
The authors challenge the common notion that what is learned and how it is learned and used are separate. The activity in which knowledge is developed and deployed is not separable from or ancillary ...