Mental Models: Theoretical Issues for Visualizations in Science Education

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Science Textbooks' Use of Graphical Representation: A Descriptive Analysis of Four Sixth Grade Science Texts (2010, background): “Mental models have been described as the internal abstract representations of concepts and ideas that “store the spatial, physical, and conceptual features,” which are “useful for retrieval in the service of problem solving, inference generation, and decision making” ( Rapp, 2005 , p.”
Experimenting with electromagnetism using augmented reality: Impact on flow student experience and educational effectiveness (2014, background): “…has been recognized as a technology with great potential for science learning (Bujak et al., 2013; Cheng & Tsai, 2012;Wu et al., 2013) as it provides newways of tactile and visual interactions which could be useful to improve learning outcomes (Cheng & Tsai, 2012; Gilbert, 2005; Rapp, 2005).”