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Direct linkChiou, Guo-Li; Anderson, O. Roger – Science Education, 2010
This study first used a new approach, combining students' ontological beliefs and process explanations, to represent students' mental models of heat conduction and then examined the relationships between their mental models and their predictions. Clinical interviews were conducted to probe 30 undergraduate physics students' mental models and their…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Physics, Pattern Recognition, Heat
Sadler, Troy D.; Zeidler, Dana L. – Science Education, 2005
This study focused on informal reasoning regarding socioscientific issues. It sought to explore how content knowledge influenced the negotiation and resolution of contentious and complex scenarios based on genetic engineering. Two hundred and sixty-nine students drawn from undergraduate natural science and nonnatural science courses completed a…
Descriptors: Natural Sciences, Engineering, Genetics, Thinking Skills
