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Download full textGlynn, Shawn M. – 1997
A study examined the role that an elaborate analogy can play when high school students learn a concept from a leading science textbook. The elaborate analogy had graphic and text components that integrated and mapped key features from the analogy (a factory) to the target concept (an animal cell). The target features were parts of the cell and, by…
Descriptors: Analogy, Concept Formation, Grade 9, High Schools
