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Using Simulations in the Middle School: Does Assertiveness of Dyad Partners Influence Conceptual Change?
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Windschitl, Mark – 1998
This study examines how academic assertiveness in junior high school students affects conceptual change and the degree to which their assertiveness affects the conceptual change of partners paired with them for a series of activities using a computer simulation of the human cardiovascular system. The sample was a group of 90 eighth-grade students…
Descriptors: Assertiveness, Biological Sciences, Computer Simulation, Grade 8