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The Interaction of Audio-Tutorial Instruction with Student Prior Knowledge: A Proposed Qualitative, Case-Study Methodology.
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Pines, A. Leon; Novak, Joseph D. – Science Education, 1985
Propositions expressed by students during interviews prior to and after audiovisual instruction served as the basis for Concept Propositional Analysis (CPA) to assess cognitive structure. CPAs for two students are reported and aspects of Ausubelian principles are discussed. The method showed that new learning can be linked to previous…
Descriptors: Cognitive Structures, Concept Formation, Elementary Education, Elementary School Science
The Use of Cluster Analysis in Categorization of Physics Problems.
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Veldhuis, G. Henry – Science Education, 1990
The nature of cluster analysis and dendograms, subjects, tasks, and results of this study are described. Categories for problems were based on assumptions about the methods used by novice and expert problem solvers in a physics context. (CW)
Descriptors: Classification, Cluster Analysis, Cognitive Structures, College Science