Research into the use of diagrams is an interdisciplinary endeavour, encompassing
disciplines as diverse as psychology, architecture and artificial intelligence. It is also a …

Visualization has a long tradition in mathematics education, and research on this topic has
become more widespread in recent decades. In a meta-analysis (41 studies, N= 10,562), we …

Drawing strategies are widely used as a powerful tool for promoting students' learning and
problem solving. In this article, we report the results of an inferential mediation analysis that …

We report on the construction, validation, and implementation of an instrument for measuring
students' strategic knowledge about drawing for geometry modelling problems, namely, the …

Diagrams are effective tools for problem solving. However, previous findings indicate that
students generally do not use diagrams spontaneously. This study examined task‐related …

We investigated how students' strategic knowledge about situational (pictorial) drawings and
mathematical (schematic) drawings affects drawing accuracy and modeling competencies in …

External representations such as diagrams often appear in teachers' repertoire of
pedagogical tools to support students' conceptual learning and problem-solving activities …

Making drawings can help students avoid and overcome difficulties they encounter when
solving real‐world (or modeling) problems. However, many students do not make drawings …

The current study investigated the effects of segmentation design and drawing on college
students' video learning. Participants were 158 college students randomly assigned to view …

IN THE ISSUE OF 23 OCTOBER 2009, SCIENCE PUBLISHED THE REPORT “Detection of
an infectious retrovirus, XMRV, in blood cells of patients with chronic fatigue syndrome,” a …