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Direct linkChiou, Guo-Li; Anderson, O. Roger – Science Education, 2010
This study first used a new approach, combining students' ontological beliefs and process explanations, to represent students' mental models of heat conduction and then examined the relationships between their mental models and their predictions. Clinical interviews were conducted to probe 30 undergraduate physics students' mental models and their…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Physics, Pattern Recognition, Heat
