Describe and draw in science. The importance of drawing in students' mental representations
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pp. 441-455
Published:
18-03-2015
Authors
- Víctor Gómez Llombart (ES)
- Valentín Gavidia Catalán (ES) Departamento de Didáctica de Ciencias Experimentales y Sociales. Universidad de Valencia
Abstract
The following investigation pretends to compare the results obtained by using drawing and writing descriptions along an activity based on ants' morphology observation. The activity is based on students' autonomous work, where students have to draw/describe in 3 different times after the visualization of live ants samples. The results of the investigation are strongly significatives, we found statistical differences between both strategies productions along the activity, allowing us to study the evolution of the mental representations. After the investigation, we can show that the drawing strategy improves the results involving observational processes, specially by improving information acquisition and communication.Keywords
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