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Direct linkChi, Michelene T. H. – Journal of the Learning Sciences, 2005
This article offers a plausible domain-general explanation for why some concepts of processes are resistant to instructional remediation although other, apparently similar concepts are more easily understood. The explanation assumes that processes may differ in ontological ways: that some processes (such as the apparent flow in diffusion of dye in…
Descriptors: Misconceptions, Scientific Principles, Scientific Concepts, Science Education
