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Stieff, Mike; Origenes, Andrea; DeSutter, Dane; Lira, Matthew; Banevicius, Lukas; Tabang, Dylan; Cabel, Gervacio – Journal of Educational Psychology, 2018
Spatial ability predicts success in STEM (Science, Technology, Education, and Mathematics) fields, particularly chemistry. This paper reports two studies investigating the unique contribution of mental rotation ability to spatial thinking in a STEM discipline. Using authentic disciplinary tasks from chemistry, we show that the difficulty of a…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, STEM Education, Spatial Ability, Chemistry
Virk, Satyugjit Singh – ProQuest LLC, 2013
Previous cognitive models of memory have not comprehensively taken into account the internal cognitive load of chunking isolated information and have emphasized the external cognitive load of visual presentation only. Under the Virk Long Term Working Memory Multimedia Model of cognitive load, drawing from the Cowan model, students presented with…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Knowledge Representation, Visualization, Cognitive Processes
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Liang, Hai-Ning; Parsons, Paul C.; Wu, Hsien-Chi; Sedig, Kamran – Journal of Interactive Learning Research, 2010
This paper deals with the design of interactivity in visualization tools. There are several factors that can be used to guide the analysis and design of the interactivity of these tools. One such factor is flow, which is concerned with the duration of interaction with visual representations of information--interaction being the actions performed…
Descriptors: Visualization, Interaction, Geometric Concepts, Knowledge Representation