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Hammrich, Penny L.; Blouch, Kathleen K. – American Biology Teacher, 1998
Recommends the use of an instructional strategy that is ideal for examining students' conceptions of the nature of science. Defines cooperative controversy as a situation in which one person's ideas, information, conclusions, theories, or opinions are incompatible with those of another. (DDR)
Descriptors: Concept Formation, Epistemology, Higher Education, Knowledge Representation