Towards a Framework for Representational Competence in Science Education

Section A: The Importance of Representational Competence.- 1. Towards a Definition of Representational Competence, Kristy L. Daniel, Carrie Jo Bucklin, E. Austin Leone, and Jenn Idema.- 2. Representational Fluency: A Means for Students to Develop STEM Literacy, Tamara J. Moore , S. Selcen Guzey, Gillian H. Roehrig, and Richard A. Lesh.- 3. Similar Information - Different Representations: Designing a Learning Environment for Promoting Transformational Competence, Billie Eilam and Shlomit Ofer.- 4. Agreeing to disagree: Students negotiating visual Ambiguity through scientific argumentation, Camillia Matuk.- 5. A Learning Performance Perspective on Representational Competence in Elementary Science Education, Laura Zangori.- Section B: Teaching Towards Representational Competence.- 6. Supporting Representational Competences Through Adaptive Educational Technologies, Martina A. Rau.- 7. Instructional Representations as Tools to Teach Systems Thinking, Tammy Lee and Gail Jones.- 8. Leveraging on Assessment of Representational Competence to Improve Instruction with External Representations, Mounir R. Saleh and Kristy L. Daniel.- 9. Improving Students' Representational Competence through a Course-based Undergraduate Research Experience, Chandrani Mishra, Kari Clase, Carrie Jo Bucklin, and Kristy L. Daniel.- Section C: The Assessment and Attainment of Representational Competence.- 10. Using Gesture Analysis to Assess Students' Developing Representational Competence, Matthew E. Lira and Mike Stieff.- 11. Assessing Representational Competence with Eye Tracking Technology, Inga Ubben, Sandra Nitz, Kristy L. Daniel, and Annette Upmeier zu Belzen.- 12. The Use of a Representational Triplet Model as the Basis for the Evaluation of Students' Representational Competence, Jill D. Maroo and Sara L. Johnson.- 13. Representational Competence in Science Education - from Theory to Assessment, Jochen Scheid, Andreas Müller, Rosa Hettmannsperger, and Wolfgang Schnotz.