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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
Exploring a Process View of Students' Knowledge about the Nature of Science.
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Hogan, Kathleen – Science Education, 2000
Introduces the ideas of "distal" knowledge of the nature of science and "proximal" knowledge of the nature of science. Suggests that viewing these two kinds of knowledge structures within modern information processing frameworks that delineate roles of epistemological and metacognitive knowledge in learning should guide future research. (Contains…
Descriptors: Cognitive Structures, Elementary Secondary Education, Epistemology, Higher Education
The Role of Knowledge Structures in the Ability of Preservice Elementary Teachers to Diagnose a Child's Understanding of Molecular Kinetics
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Bischoff, Paul J. – Science Education, 2006
This study explored preservice teachers' (n = 25) knowledge structures and their mastery of content knowledge in relation to their ability to diagnose the strengths and weaknesses of a fourth grader's videotaped explanations of a scientific phenomenon, i.e., molecular kinetic properties of air. Participants' knowledge structures were analyzed…
Descriptors: Preservice Teacher Education, Cognitive Structures, Preservice Teachers, Kinetics