Visualizing the Greenhouse Effect: Restructuring Mental Models of Climate Change through a Guided Online Simulation

Autor/inn/en	Thacker, Ian; Sinatra, Gale M.
Titel	Visualizing the Greenhouse Effect: Restructuring Mental Models of Climate Change through a Guided Online Simulation
Quelle	In: Education Sciences, 9 (2019), Artikel 14 (19 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	2227-7102
Schlagwörter	Visualization; Climate; Computer Simulation; Environmental Education; Science Education; Undergraduate Students; Misconceptions; Inferences; Concept Formation; Cognitive Processes; Science Process Skills; Schemata (Cognition); Outcomes of Education + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Visualisation; Visualisierung; Klima; Computergrafik; Computersimulation; Umweltbildung; Umwelterziehung; Umweltpädagogik; Naturwissenschaftliche Bildung; Missverständnis; Inference; Inferenz; Concept learning; Begriffsbildung; Cognitive process; Kognitiver Prozess; Cognition; Schema; Kognition; Lernleistung; Schulerfolg
Abstract	The purpose of this design based research study was to better understand and build from students' perceptual experiences of visual representations of the greenhouse effect. Twenty undergraduate students were interviewed as they engaged with an online visualization for the learning of the greenhouse effect. We found that, even though all students agreed that climate change is happening, a majority initially held a misconception about how it works. Upon engaging with the visualization, students made perceptual inferences and formulated causal rules that culminated in an improved description of how climate change works. This trajectory was supported with prompts from the interviewer to make predictions, observe specific interactions in the visualization and revise their causal inferences based on these observations. A case study is presented to illustrate a typical learning trajectory. (As Provided).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2020/1/01