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Peer reviewedColl, Richard K.; Treagust, David F. – Research in Science and Technological Education, 2002
Explores whether exposure to increasingly sophisticated mental models at different points in a chemistry education class showed up in patterns of preference and use of models in interpreting physical properties and phenomena. (Contains 92 references.) (DDR)
Descriptors: Chemistry, Cognitive Processes, Concept Formation, Foreign Countries
Peer reviewedRaghavan, Kalyani; Sartoris, Mary L.; Glaser, Robert – Science Education, 1998
Examines the impact of one unit of a curriculum module for sixth grade from the Model-based Analysis and Reasoning in Science (MARS) project. Provides an overview of this unit on mass and discusses three aspects of the evaluation of the unit. Contains 22 references. (DDR)
Descriptors: Concept Formation, Curriculum Development, Grade 6, Intermediate Grades
Peer reviewedCamacho, Fernando Flores; Cazares, Leticia Gallegos – Science Education, 1998
Illustrates the construction of conceptual models on pressure and flotation using high school students' previous ideas on these concepts. Identifies three models and uses them to analyze students' ideas about physical phenomena and to recognize the inferential structure they use. Contains 28 references. (DDR)
Descriptors: Concept Formation, Foreign Countries, High School Students, High Schools
Download full textSchwarz, Christina; White, Barbara – 1998
This paper reports on the evaluation of an 11-week curriculum created to foster seventh grade students' understanding of scientific modeling. In the curriculum, students engaged in model-oriented activities such as creating non-Newtonian computer microworlds to embody their conceptual models, evaluating their models with criteria, and reflecting…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Computer Uses in Education, Concept Formation, Curriculum Development
