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Peer reviewedMonaghan, James M.; Clement, John – Journal of Science Education and Technology, 2000
Hypothesizes that the construction of visual models, resolution of these visual models with numeric models and, in many cases, rejection of commitments such as the belief in one true velocity, are necessary for students to form integrated mental models of relative motion events. Studies high school students' relative motion problem solving.…
Descriptors: Algorithms, Computer Simulation, Cooperative Learning, High Schools
Peer reviewedMonaghan, James M.; Clement, John – International Journal of Science Education, 1999
Presents evidence for students' qualitative and quantitative difficulties with apparently simple one-dimensional relative-motion problems, students' spontaneous visualization of relative-motion problems, the visualizations facilitating solution of these problems, and students' memories of the online computer simulation used as a framework for…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Computer Simulation, Concept Formation, Memory
