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Peer reviewedFeher, Elsa; Meyer, Karen Rice – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 1992
Discusses children's ideas about colored objects and colored shadows, with special attention to the organization of these ideas into mental models. The clarification of these models provides instructional tools that serve to assess and confront students' naive conceptions. Subjects were visitors to a science museum who engaged in interactive…
Descriptors: Cognitive Structures, Cognitive Style, Color, Concept Formation
