Scaffolding Students’ Use of Multiple Representations for Science Learning
Funded by Institute of Educational Sciences $1.45 million
This project is that a integration of multiple representations within an instructional unit, and the design of scaffolding that enables translation between representations, which leads to a deeper conceptual understanding. Our main objective is to develop and evaluate a novel approach to science instruction that engages multiple representations – text, hands-on experimentation and interactive computer simulations, which incorporates scaffolding both by the teacher and the computer, in order to immerse middle school students in these practices of science.
