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The research questions that we are currently investigating are listed below:

1. How do students learn with NIELS?
• Microgenetic Analysis of 5-th and 7-th graders learning about Electricity with NIELS models.
• Click here to see a short video of how students learn with NIELS

2. Design Principles
• Mediating complex phenomena through simple perceptual actions, mechanistic reasoning & reflection.

3. Visuospatial cognition & NIELS
• Relationship between perceptual & conceptual schemas and their role in the students' sense-making processes.

4. Is an expert's understanding really different from naive understanding?
• Investigation of Knoweldge Representation in both experts and novices based on theoretical cognitive models and empirical studies.