Investigating a scientist's use of a visualization tool to visualize the concepts of carbon cycling

Jung Yi Hung*, Hsin Yi Chang, Jeng Fung Hung

*Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

Teaching students learn to think like scientists is one of the purposes of science education and the premise of this study is to understand the processes of scientists' visualization. In order to understand the involved aspects while scientists visualizing the complex concepts, this study interviewed one scientist and explored his thinking processes while he constructed visualizations of the concept of carbon cycling in the ecosystem. The interview consisted of visualization tasks with think-Aloud and the follow-up retrospective. By the analysis of the information of interview of a scientist, this study found that cognitive skills, metacognitive skills, visualization skills, conceptual knowledge, metacognitive knowledge, and meta-level visualization knowledge were interactively used by a scientist. We identified six strategies demonstrated by the scientist constructing visualizations. Moreover, two critical points influenced the visualization task were identified. By the cross-case comparison and revealing the gap between scientists and novices in the future, this study spurs discussion to propose concrete scaffolding in instruction and curriculum design for students.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationWorkshop Proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on Computers in Education, ICCE 2015
EditorsYing-Tien Wu, Tomoko Kojiri, Siu Cheung Kong, Feiyue Qiu, Hiroaki Ogata, Thepchai Supnithi, Yonggu Wang, Weiqin Chen
PublisherAsia-Pacific Society for Computers in Education
Pages504-510
Number of pages7
ISBN (Electronic)9784990801472
Publication statusPublished - 2015
Externally publishedYes
Event23rd International Conference on Computers in Education, ICCE 2015 - Hangzhou, China
Duration: 2015 Nov 302015 Dec 4

Publication series

NameWorkshop Proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on Computers in Education, ICCE 2015

Other

Other23rd International Conference on Computers in Education, ICCE 2015
Country/TerritoryChina
CityHangzhou
Period2015/11/302015/12/04

Keywords

  • Critical point
  • Strategy
  • Thinking process
  • Visualization

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Computer Science Applications
  • Human-Computer Interaction
  • Education

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