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Sound and Faulty Arguments Generated by Preservice Biology Teachers When Testing Hypotheses Involving Unobservable Entities.
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Lawson, Anton E. – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 2002
Investigates the responses of a sample of preservice biology teachers enrolled in a teaching methods course to a casual question about why water rose in a jar inverted over a burning candle placed in a pan of water by formulating and testing six hypotheses. (Contains 43 references.) (Author/YDS)
Descriptors: Biology, Higher Education, Hypothesis Testing, Inquiry