The Difference between Evaluating and Understanding Students' Visual Representations of Scientists and Engineers

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Author(s): Donna Farland-Smith (The Ohio State University, USA)and Kevin D. Finson (Bradley University, USA)
Copyright: 2016
Pages: 15
Source title: Knowledge Visualization and Visual Literacy in Science Education
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Anna Ursyn (University of Northern Colorado, USA)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-0480-1.ch013

Keywords: Curriculum Development and Instructional Design / Education / Information Science Reference / STEM Education

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This chapter is a discussion of multiple tools for analyzing children's representations of scientists and engineers. Draw-A-Scientist and Draw-An-Engineer protocols have been utilized by science education researchers to investigate learners' perceptions of scientists and engineers. The chapter discusses the methods for analyzing students' perceptions of scientists and engineers how aspects of analysis lead to deeper understanding of the visual data. The discussion presented here is framed in the context in which refined protocols and rubrics are tools that uncover ranges of conceptions, and sometimes visual data are best examined by simple evaluation methods and sometimes by a qualitative rubric. The overarching question of this section is how can researchers use analysis of visual data to further what they already know about conceptions of scientists and engineers.

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