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Battaglia, Onofrio Rosario; Di Paola, Benedetto; Fazio, Claudio – EURASIA Journal of Mathematics, Science & Technology Education, 2017
Research in Science Education has shown that often students need to learn how to identify differences and similarities between descriptive and explicative models. The development and use of explicative skills in the field of thermal science has always been a difficult objective to reach. A way to develop analogical reasoning is to use in Science…
Descriptors: Logical Thinking, Learning Activities, Science Instruction, Scientific Concepts
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Mason, Lucia; Pluchino, Patrik; Tornatora, Maria Caterina; Ariasi, Nicola – Journal of Experimental Education, 2013
This study investigated the online process of reading and the offline learning from an illustrated science text. The authors examined the effects of using a concrete or abstract picture to illustrate a text and adopted eye-tracking methodology to trace text and picture processing. They randomly assigned 59 eleventh-grade students to 3 reading…
Descriptors: Eye Movements, Grade 11, Pictorial Stimuli, Illustrations