This is a reflective piece on the process of identifying the difficulty students have with
underlying biological concepts, a discussion about how educators can metacognitively …

Biological Education, published by Springer in 2013 in the Models and Modeling in Science
Education series, is essential reading for anyone involved in biology education. The first has …

The range of terminology used in the field of 'visualization'is reviewed and, in the light of
evidence that it plays a central role in the conduct of science, it is argued that it should play a …

Science teachers often use visual images to help students visualise the abstract concepts of
science. Yet, they may not support students in making sense of these visual representations …

This new publication in the Models and Modeling in Science Education series synthesizes a
wealth of international research on using multiple representations in biology education and …

While there has been considerable research attention paid to ways of supporting students to
interpret and apply the multi modal representations that constitute scientific understanding …

All representations such as models, analogies, equations, graphs, diagrams, pictures and
simulations can be exhibited in verbal, mathematical, visual and/or actional-operational …

We all have the subjective experience of having ideas, but this chapter considers how we
should think about the processes by which learners' come to have ideas about the world …

Compared with research on the role of student engagement with expert representations in
learning science, investigation of the use and theoretical justification of student-generated …

Since the 1990s, researchers have increasingly drawn attention to the multiplicity of
representations used in science. This issue of RISE advances this line of research by …