Models and Moves: Focusing on Dimensions of Causal Complexity To Achieve Deeper Scientific Understanding.
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| Title: | Models and Moves: Focusing on Dimensions of Causal Complexity To Achieve Deeper Scientific Understanding. |
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| Language: | English |
| Authors: | Perkins, David N., Grotzer, Tina A. |
| Peer Reviewed: | N |
| Page Count: | 24 |
| Publication Date: | 2000 |
| Sponsoring Agency: | National Science Foundation, Arlington, VA. |
| Document Type: | Reports - Descriptive Speeches/Meeting Papers |
| Descriptors: | Biology, College Students, Ecology, Electric Circuits, Evolution, Higher Education, Inquiry, Models, Science Education, Scientific Concepts |
| Abstract: | This paper presents the results of a research project based on the Understandings of Consequence Project. This study motivated students to engage in inquiry in science classrooms. The complexity of the models is divided into four categories--underlying causality, relational causality, probabilistic causality, and emergent causality--and provides several examples, including electrical circuits, static electricity, natural selection, and ecosystems for scientific conceptions, to show evidence of the Models and Moves framework for learners. (Contains 23 references.) (YDS) |
| Entry Date: | 2000 |
| Accession Number: | ED441698 |
| Database: | ERIC |
| Abstract: | This paper presents the results of a research project based on the Understandings of Consequence Project. This study motivated students to engage in inquiry in science classrooms. The complexity of the models is divided into four categories--underlying causality, relational causality, probabilistic causality, and emergent causality--and provides several examples, including electrical circuits, static electricity, natural selection, and ecosystems for scientific conceptions, to show evidence of the Models and Moves framework for learners. (Contains 23 references.) (YDS) |
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