Amanda, Nick, Berthorie, Alison, and Professor Georg Northoff (Royal Ottawa) have published a new article, titled: Building mental models of a reaction mechanism: the influence of static and animated representations, prior knowledge, and spatial ability
https://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlelanding/2019/RP/C9RP00198K#!divAbstract
Changes in students’ mental models after seeing a chemical reaction either in an animated or static format. PiM = description of the reaction as particles-in-motion, Process = process-oriented description, Static = static description of the process. n = 22 in Group 2.