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  title info:
    title: Multiple Representations in Biological Education
  name:
    name part: Treagust, David F.
    role:
      role term: editor.
  name:
    name part: Tsui, Chi-Yan.
    role:
      role term: editor.
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: ne
    date issued: 2013
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: XVII, 390 p. 90 illus. online resource.
  abstract: 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 aims for a coherent framework in using them to improve higher-order learning. Addressing a major gap in the literature, the volume proposes a theoretical model for advancing biology educators’ notions of how multiple external representations (MERs) such as analogies, metaphors and visualizations can best be harnessed for improving teaching and learning in biology at all pedagogical levels. The content tackles the conceptual and linguistic difficulties of learning biology at each level—macro, micro, sub-micro, and symbolic, illustrating how MERs can be used in teaching across these levels and in various combinations, as well as in differing contexts and topic areas. The strategies outlined will help students’ reasoning and problem-solving skills, enhance their ability to construct mental models and internal representations, and, ultimately, will assist in increasing public understanding of biology-related issues, a key goal in today’s world of pressing concerns over societal problems about food, environment, energy, and health. The book concludes by highlighting important aspects of research in biological education in the post-genomic, information age.
  table of contents: FOREWORD, Kathleen Fisher -- PREFACE , David F. Treagust and Chi-Yan Tsui -- Introduction to Multiple Representations: Their Importance in Biology and Biological Education, Chi-Yan Tsui and David F. Treagust -- PART I : Role of Multiple Representations in Learning Biology -- Chapter 1 Identifying and Developing Students’ Ability to Reason with Concepts and Representations in Biology, Trevor R. Anderson, Konrad J. Schönborn, Lynn du Plessis, Abindra S. Gupthar, and Tracy L. Hull -- Chapter 2 Pictures in Biology Education, Wolff-Michael Roth and Lilian Pozzer-Ardenghi -- Chapter 3 Possible Constraints of Visualization in Biology: Challenges in Learning with Multiple Representations, Billie Eilam -- Chapter 4 Promoting the Collaborative Use of Cognitive and Metacognitive Skills through Conceptual Representations in Hypermedia, Lei Liu and Cindy E. Hmelo-Silver -- Chapter 5 Learning and Teaching Biotechnological Methods Using Animations, Hagit Yarden and Anat Yarden -- PART II: Implications for Biology Teaching and Teacher Education with Multiple Representations -- Chapter 6 Experts’ Views on Translation across Multiple External Representations in Acquiring Biological Knowledge about Ecology, Genetics, and Evolution, Konrad J. Schönborn and Susanne Bögeholz -- Chapter 7 Evolution is a Model, Why Not Teach It That Way?, Paul Horwitz -- Chapter 8 Multiple Representations of Human Genetics in Biology Textbooks, Pierre Clément and Jérémy Castéra -- Chapter 9 Deconstructing and Decoding Complex Process Diagrams in University Biology, Phyllis B. Griffard -- Chapter 10 Learning Tree Thinking: Developing a New Framework of Representational Competence, Kristy L. Halverson and Patricia Friedrichsen -- Chapter 11 Understanding Photosynthesis and Cellular Respiration: Encouraging a View of Biological Nested Systems, Reneé Schwartz and Mary Brown -- Chapter 12 Scientific Models in the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) Research and in the Biology Curriculum, Siu Ling Wong, Mau…
  note: edited by David F. Treagust, Chi-Yan Tsui.
  subject:
    topic: Education
  subject:
    topic: Science education
  subject:
    topic: Education
  subject:
    topic: Science Education
  subject:
    topic: Learning & Instruction
  classification: LC8-6691
  classification: 507.1
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    title info:
      title: Springer eBooks
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    title info:
      title: Models and Modeling in Science Education, 7
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  identifier: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-4192-8
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    record creation date: 130202
    record change date: 20151029231224.0
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