Graphics have been used since ancient times to portray things that are inherently
spatiovisual, like maps and building plans. More recently, graphics have been used to …

Students engaged in learning a large body of related knowledge often possess some
incorrect naïve knowledge about the domain. These “misconceptions” must be removed …

This paper motivates the idea of “conceptual ecology” by critiquing the current mainstream of
conceptual change research. Most research on conceptual change suffers from too little …

The argument will be advanced in this paper that naive physics is neither a collection of
unstructured knowledge elements nor a collection of stable misconceptions that need to be …

FORCE TEXT 10 99 new Page 1 The Changing Meanings of Force 1 The Changing Meanings
of Force Christos Ioannides Department of Education, University of Cyprus and Stella Vosniadou …

Computer-based multimedia technologies allow designers to construct interactive and
animated graphical presentations to communicate dynamic information. The conventional …

After a critique of 2 popular and current perspectives on the nature of understanding in
science education (learning as change in conceptual understanding and learning as …

More than a decade of research and innovation in using computer-based graphing and
simulation environments has encouraged many of us in the research community to believe …

This study investigates the relationship between students' spatial abilities and their ability to
solve problems in physics, specifically in kinematics. The approach taken is to consider …

In Michotte's (1946/1963) launching effect paradigm, a moving launcher contacts a
stationary target, and then the launcher becomes stationary and the target begins to move …