The Capacity to Visualize Models
The skills of visualization do improve with age during childhood and adolescence, with relevant experience playing a major role in that development (Tuckey & Selvaratnam, 1993). Studies of gender and visualization seem inconclusive: any possible initial advantage for boys can readily be nullified by suitable experience for girls (Tuckey & Selvaratnam, 1993). Experience of the combination of concrete molecular models and pseudo-3D computer-based modelling tools has been shown to enable school science students to move more readily both between 2D and 3D representations (Dori & Barak, 2001). However, such attempts to combine experience across modes seem to be comparatively rare. More develop work, associate with research, is called for.