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Cook, Michelle – Science Education International, 2011
In the current science education literature, most of the attention has focused on understanding the impact visual representations in textbooks and multimedia materials have on students and their learning, but very few studies have focused on teachers' use of these graphics in the classroom. The purpose of this study is to investigate how seven…
Descriptors: Educational Resources, Course Content, Science Teachers, Student Characteristics
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Cook, Michelle; Wiebe, Eric; Carter, Glenda – Journal of Educational Multimedia and Hypermedia, 2011
This study is part of an ongoing research project examining middle school girls' attention to and interpretation of visual representations of DNA replication. Specifically, this research examined differences between two different versions of a multimedia presentation on DNA, where the second version of the presentation was redesigned as a result…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Middle School Students, Females, Eye Movements
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Cook, Michelle; Carter, Glenda; Wiebe, Eric N. – International Journal of Science Education, 2008
The purpose of this study was to examine how prior knowledge of cellular transport influenced how high school students in the USA viewed and interpreted graphic representations of this topic. The participants were Advanced Placement Biology students (n = 65); each participant had previously taken a biology course in high school. After assessing…
Descriptors: Instructional Design, Advanced Placement, Prior Learning, Biology