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an understanding of external representations (symbolic visualizations) used in chemistry, 8
competence in communicating chemistry knowledge using external representations, 8
an ability to formulate internal representations (mental models), 8
the ability to interconvert readily from one representation to another (e.g., line structure to condensed structure, internal to external, two-dimensional to three-dimensional, verbal/linguistic to symbolic), 8–10
facility in representational processing (e.g., use of curved arrows to document mechanisms), 11,12 as well as,
facility in spatial reasoning skills 13 (e.g., mental rotations, three-dimensional visualization from two-dimensional representation)