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Model construction, critique, and revision in magnetism: The importance of integrating conscious and intuitive knowledge

Year: 2007

Type: article

Abstract: In this study we explore the spontaneous explanatory models children construct, critique, and revise in the context of tasks in which children need to predict, observe, and explain phenomena involving magnetism. Our findings indicate that several of the children were able to construct explanatory models. However, of the six children interviewed (three third graders and three sixth graders), only one was consistently able to critique and revise her models to arrive at a consistent, coherent, and sophisticated explanatory model. This research indicates that instruction should help students to become meta-conceptually aware in order to critique and revise explanatory models drawing on both intuitive and conscious knowledge.

Source: Illinois Digital Environment for Access to Learning and Scholarship (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)

Authors: Meng‐Fei Cheng, David E. Brown

Language: English

Topic: Science Education and Pedagogy

Subfield: Education

Field: Social Sciences

Domain: Social Sciences

SDG: Quality education

Open Access status: green

OpenAlex ID: W2252721568

FWCI: 1.398

Cites: 26

Cited by: 1

Related to: 10