Science education at school level worldwide faces three perennial problems that have become more pressing of late. For example, algebra is taught in terms of “x, y, z” in mathematics classes, but students are later unable to see the relevance of that to the meaning of the universal gas laws in physics, where “p, v, t” are used.
An Introduction To Visualization.- A Commonsense View and Its Problems.- A History of Visualization in Psychology and Science.- The Concept of Visualization.- Cognitive Theory.- Current Educational Research.- Visualizations and Mathematics.- Visualizations and Reading.- Visualizations and Science.- Cautions and Recommendations.- Research and Guidelines on Computer-Generated Visualizations.- Concluding Comments, Recommendations, and Further Considerations.