Representational issues in students learning about evaporation Tytler, Russell, Prain, Vaughan and Peterson, Suzanne 2007, Representational issues in students learning about evaporation, Research in science education, vol. 37, no. 3, pp. 313-331, doi: 10.1007/s11165-006-9028-3. Attached Files Name Description MIMEType Size Downloads Title Representational issues in students learning about evaporation Author(s) Tytler, Russell orcid.org/0000-0003-0161-7240 Prain, Vaughan orcid.org/0000-0001-5832-4727 Peterson, Suzanne Journal name Research in science education Volume number 37 Issue number 3 Start page 313 End page 331 Publisher Springer Place of publication Dordrecht, The Netherlands Publication date 2007-01-09 ISSN 0157-244X 1573-1898 Keyword(s) student learning in science representation and learning literacies of science evaporation Summary This study draws on recent research on the central role of representation in learning. While there has been considerable research on students’ understanding of evaporation, the representational issues entailed in this understanding have not been investigated in depth. The study explored students’ engagement with evaporation phenomena through various representational modes. The study indicates how a focus on representation can provide fresh insights into the conceptual task involved in learning science through an investigation of students’ responses to a structured classroom sequence and subsequent interviews over a year. A case study of one child’s learning demonstrates the way conceptual advances are integrally connected with the development of representational modes. The findings suggest that teacher-mediated negotiation of representational issues as students construct different modal accounts can support enriched learning by enabling both (a) richer conceptual understanding by students, and (b) enhanced teacher insights into students’ thinking. Language eng DOI 10.1007/s11165-006-9028-3 Field of Research 130212 Science, Technology and Engineering Curriculum and Pedagogy Socio Economic Objective 930199 Learner and Learning not elsewhere classified HERDC Research category C1 Refereed article in a scholarly journal Copyright notice ©2007, Springer Science, Business Media B.V. Persistent URL http://hdl.handle.net/10536/DRO/DU:30007417 Document type: Journal Article Collections: Faculty of Arts and Education School of Education Related Links Link Description Connect to published version (restricted access) Go to link with your DU access privileges     Unless expressly stated otherwise, the copyright for items in DRO is owned by the author, with all rights reserved. Versions Version Filter Type Wed, 04 Mar 2009, 15:20:07 EST Wed, 14 Oct 2009, 14:34:04 EST Tue, 11 May 2010, 12:15:47 EST Tue, 11 May 2010, 12:16:47 EST Tue, 01 Jun 2010, 13:43:19 EST Wed, 15 Feb 2012, 15:51:27 EST Mon, 16 Jun 2014, 08:43:18 EST Filtered Full Citation counts:   Cited 57 times in TR Web of Science Cited 62 times in Scopus Search Google Scholar Access Statistics: 1073 Abstract Views, 3 File Downloads  -  Detailed Statistics Created: Mon, 29 Sep 2008, 08:51:52 EST