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Richard Brock; Keith S. Taber; D. M. Watts – International Journal of Science Education, 2024
Some descriptions of learning represent the process as the development of organisations of elements. Various organisations have been proposed, for example, schemata and conceptual structures. Such representations assume that mental entities, such as concepts, are sufficiently stable and differentiated to be treated as units. We discuss these…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Secondary School Students, Secondary School Science, Motion
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Taber, Keith S.; Garcia-Franco, Alejandra – Journal of the Learning Sciences, 2010
This article explores 11- to 16-year-old students' explanations for phenomena commonly studied in school chemistry from an inclusive cognitive resources or knowledge-in-pieces perspective that considers that student utterances may reflect the activation of knowledge elements at a range of levels of explicitness. We report 5 themes in student…
Descriptors: Physics, Chemistry, Learning Processes, Intuition