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Direct linkAlistair McInerny; Andrew Boudreaux; Mila Kryjevskaia – Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2025
This article reports on a controlled study to investigate the efficacy of incorporating explicit discussions about the duality of human reasoning and its implications for learning in physics instruction. The central goal is to probe to what extent, if at all, such discussions improve student performance on tasks that tend to elicit intuitively…
Descriptors: Discussion (Teaching Technique), Physics, Science Instruction, Science Achievement
Peer reviewedThornton, Melvin C.; Fuller, Robert G. – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 1981
Reports results of a study investigating the ability of college students to solve problems using proportional reasoning. Also discusses implications for consideration of Piagetian cognitive level of students in planning college courses. (CS)
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Tests, College Science
