Developing a Theoretical Framework for Visualization-Based Pedagogical Content Knowledge (V-PCK) Based on Middle School Teachers’ Views and Uses of Visualizations as an Instructional Tool

Visualizations is a categorical term that is often used to provide visual imagery to the communication of processes, concepts, exemplar phenomena, and general information. Objects such as graphs, tables, diagrams, animations, and pictures fall in this category. Existing literature focuses primarily on the use of visualizations in the science field at the high school level, collegiate levels, and in pre-service teacher education programs. A gap in the literature exists which examines how science teachers at the middle school level perceive and use visualizations as instructional components in the classroom. The purpose of this study was to examine science teachers views on the barriers and facilitators that guided visualization-based instruction in middle school science classrooms. Participants in this study included three science teachers from a small urban middle school in the Southern region of the United States. Grounded theory was used to collect data through semi-structured interviews, classroom observations, lesson plan analysis, card sorting tasks, and a learning style inventory. Data was deductively coded to determine trends which resulted in the development of the theory, Visualization-based Pedagogical Content Knowledge (V-PCK). Results also indicated that while teachers viewed visualizations in a positive manner, their use of visualizations were limited to methods that produced little to no new student knowledge. Integration into the classroom was heavily influenced by the classroom environment and teachers’ previous experiences with visualizations. The findings of this study indicated there is a need for professional development opportunities in this area to better allow teachers to utilize visualizations as a teaching and learning tool in the middle school science classroom

W. M. Keck Foundation - 2003 Annual Report: Forward Reflections

Contains president's message, program information, list of board members and staff, and a retrospective of the foundation's first 50 years of grantmaking in science and engineering, medical research, liberal arts, and Southern California

Design Transactions

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Design Transactions

Design Transactions presents the outcome of new research to emerge from ‘Innochain’, a consortium of six leading European architectural and engineering-focused institutions and their industry partners. The book presents new advances in digital design tooling that challenge established building cultures and systems. It offers new sustainable and materially smart design solutions with a strong focus on changing the way the industry thinks, designs, and builds our physical environment. Divided into sections exploring communication, simulation and materialisation, Design Transactions explores digital and physical prototyping and testing that challenges the traditional linear construction methods of incremental refinement. This novel research investigates ‘the digital chain’ between phases as an opportunity for extended interdisciplinary design collaboration. The highly illustrated book features work from 15 early-stage researchers alongside chapters from world-leading industry collaborators and academics