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Laura E. Deering – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Visual-spatial literacy is an essential component to developing STEM literacy, which is a primary focus of the three-dimensional Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) framework for science education. Because scientific data is frequently communicated through visual representations, it is important for members of the current science and…
Descriptors: Elementary School Teachers, Secondary School Teachers, Science Teachers, Teacher Attitudes
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Ozmen, Zeynep Medine; Guven, Bulent; Kurak, Yasin – Eurasian Journal of Educational Research, 2020
Purpose: Previous research focused on graphical skills of the students, which remains a gap that exists, and there has not been comprehensive research on students' graphical literacy abilities. The present study aims to picture graphical literacy levels of the 8th grade students concerning the "reading," "interpreting,"…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Grade 8, Knowledge Level, Graphs
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García Fernández, Beatriz; Ruiz-Gallardo, José Reyes – Journal of Science Education and Technology, 2017
Are children competent producing anatomy cross-sections? To answer this question, we carried out a case study research aimed at testing graphic production skills in anatomy of nutrition. The graphics produced by 118 children in the final year of primary education were analysed. The children had to draw a diagram of a human cross section,…
Descriptors: Anatomy, Elementary School Students, Human Body, Elementary School Science
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Kelly-Jackson, Charlease; Delacruz, Stacy – Action in Teacher Education, 2014
This original pedagogical study captured three preservice teachers' experiences using visual literacy strategies as an approach to teaching English language learners (ELLs) science academic language. The following research questions guided this study: (1) What are the experiences of preservice teachers' use of visual literacy to teach science…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Preservice Teachers, Visual Literacy, Elementary School Students
Sonmez, Duygu; Altun, Arif; Mazman, Sacide Guzin – International Association for Development of the Information Society, 2012
This study investigates how prior content knowledge and prior exposure to microscope slides on the phases of mitosis effect students' visual search strategies and their ability to differentiate cells that are going through any phases of mitosis. Two different sets of microscope slide views were used for this purpose; with high and low colour…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Prior Learning, Undergraduate Students, Visual Aids