Visual-verbal coordination

Processes that involve mapping, linking, or otherwise connecting related knowledge components that are depicted visually (such as in a diagram or simulation) and verbally(such as in text or audio).

A low level example is simply being able to map a verbal reference to a visual depiction. For example, in Geometry, students need to coordinate textual references in a problem statement (e.g., angle ABC) to the visual depiction of angle ABC in a geometry diagam. A higher level example in Chemistry may be recognizing the properties of a visual depictions of molecules in a solution and connecting that visual depiction to the verbal explanation of the solution concentration.