Drawing to Learn in Science

Motivation to Learn Science and Cognitive Style

This article investigates the relation between cognitive style and motivation to learn science. The concept of cognitive style proposes the interplay of two core psychological dimensions, empathizing and systemizing. The cognitive style is defined as the interplay between the two abilities. We used the so-called EQ score (empathy quotient) and the SQ score (systemizing quotient) to measure the ...

Drawing-to-Learn: A Framework for Using Drawings to Promote Model-Based Reasoning in Biology

The drawing of visual representations is important for learners and scientists alike, such as the drawing of models to enable visual model-based reasoning. Yet few biology instructors recognize drawing as a teachable science process skill, as reflected by its absence in the Vision and Change report's Modeling and Simulation core competency. Further, the diffuse research on drawing can be diffic...

Reading-to-learn and Writing-to-learn Science Activities for the Elementary School Classroom

Many elementary school teachers realize that more and more hands-on activities is not the solution to unsatisfactory science literacy. The process-product debate of the 1960s reform in which alphabet science programs exclusively promoted hands-on concrete discovery activities was not successful for about 75% of elementary school teachers. The uncertainty of unstructured explorations, the discou...

Drawing the scientific map of Islamic Azad University Medical Sciences products in Web of Science site

Background: The aim of this research was to analyze and illustrate scientific productions of Islamic Azad University researchers under title of Medical Sciences in Web of Science (WOS) data base. Materials and methods: The present study was a kind of applied scientific research which studied the quantitative performance of Islamic Azad University of Medical Sciences in WOS database from beginni...

From Seeing to Observing: How Parents and Children Learn to See Science in a Botanical Garden