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Personal inquiry: orchestrating science investigations within and beyond the classroom (2014)
Journal Article

A central challenge for science educators is to enable young people to act as scientists by gathering and assessing evidence, conducting experiments, and engaging in informed debate. We report the design of the nQuire toolkit, a system to support scr... Read More about Personal inquiry: orchestrating science investigations within and beyond the classroom.

Depicting the tree of life in museums: guiding principles from psychological research (2014)
Journal Article

The Tree of Life is revolutionizing our understanding of life on Earth, and, accordingly, evolutionary trees are increasingly important parts of exhibits on biodiversity and evolution. The authors argue that in using these trees to effectively commun... Read More about Depicting the tree of life in museums: guiding principles from psychological research.

The Multiple Representation Principle in Multimedia Learning (2014)
Book Chapter

© Cambridge University Press 2005, 2014. This chapter argues that to understand the ways that multiple representations should be designed to support learning, we need to consider the pedagogical functions that they play alongside their structural for... Read More about The Multiple Representation Principle in Multimedia Learning.

Do student perceptions of teaching predict the development of representational competence and biological knowledge? (2014)
Journal Article

Dealing with representations is a crucial skill for students and such representational competence is essential for learning science. This study analysed the relationship between representational competence and content knowledge, student perceptions... Read More about Do student perceptions of teaching predict the development of representational competence and biological knowledge?.