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An Exploration of Chemistry Students' Conceptions of Light and Light-Matter Interactions in the Context of the Photoelectric Effect
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Balabanoff, Morgan E.; Al Fulaiti, Haiyan; Bhusal, Shikshya; Harrold, Archer; Moon, Alena C. – International Journal of Science Education, 2020
Light is used ubiquitously across science and engineering to explore, characterise, understand matter, and catalyse processes. Relative to its utility in science and engineering, very little research has been conducted on how students develop an understanding of light-matter interactions, especially at the quantum level, which is necessary to…
Descriptors: Chemistry, Science Instruction, Light, Student Attitudes
Children's Lack-of-Knowledge Inference about Memory.
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Swanson, H. Lee – Child Study Journal, 1985
Investigates, using eight scenarios, children making inferences about memory from incomplete knowledge and children varying in what they judge as relevant information in their schema. Showed that older children are less likely than younger ones to invoke an inferential schema when making memory judgements. (Author/BB)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Children, Cognitive Processes, Cognitive Structures
Knowledge Structures: Where Can We Find Them?
Law, Nancy – 1988
Knowledge elicitation through programming was studied to determine students' intuitive ideas about motion. The subjects, 17-year-old sixth-form science students and 14-year-old third-form students, were asked to write expert systems programs about motion; and their interactions with their own knowledge were observed. The 17-year-old students had…
Descriptors: Cognitive Structures, Expert Systems, Foreign Countries, High School Students
Cognition in Scientific and Everyday Domains: Comparison and Learning Implications.
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Reif, Frederick; Larkin, Jill H. – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 1991
Scientific and everyday knowledge domains are compared so as to reveal the distinctive differences between their goals and the cognitive processes used to attain them. The main goals, working goals, learning difficulties, knowledge structure, concept specification, knowledge organization, role of school science, program-solving instruction, formal…
Descriptors: Cognitive Structures, Concept Formation, Epistemology, Higher Education
The Pursuit of Understanding in Clinical Reasoning.
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Feltovich, Paul J.; Patel, Vimla L. – 1984
Trends in emphases in the study of clinical reasoning are examined, with attention to three major branches of research: problem-solving, knowledge engineering, and propositional analysis. There has been a general progression from a focus on the generic form of clinical reasoning to an emphasis on medical content that supports the reasoning…
Descriptors: Artificial Intelligence, Clinical Diagnosis, Cognitive Ability, Cognitive Psychology
Children Solving Problems. The Developing Child Series.
Thornton, Stephanie – 1995
The developmental increase in the ability to solve problems is a puzzle. Does it come from basic changes in mental skills, or is it a matter of practice? This book from the Developing Child series synthesizes recent research examining children's problem-solving skills development. Chapter 1 presents the major themes: (1) there is increasing…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Analogy, Child Development, Children