How to make a good animation: A grounded cognition model of how visual representation design affects the construction of abstract physics knowledge

Visual representations play a critical role in teaching physics. However, since we do not have a satisfactory understanding of how visual perception impacts the construction of abstract knowledge, most visual representations used in instructions are either created based on existing conventions or de...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Zhongzhou Chen, Gary Gladding
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: American Physical Society 2014-04-01
Series:Physical Review Special Topics. Physics Education Research
Online Access:http://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevSTPER.10.010111