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Morell, Linda; Collier, Tina; Black, Paul; Wilson, Mark – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 2017
This paper builds on the current literature base about learning progressions in science to address the question, "What is the nature of the learning progression in the content domain of the structure of matter?" We introduce a learning progression in response to that question and illustrate a methodology, the Construct Modeling (Wilson,…
Descriptors: Scientific Concepts, Middle School Students, Public Schools, Models
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Brown, Nathaniel J. S.; Wilson, Mark – Educational Psychology Review, 2011
When we rely upon gains on some measure to support statements of prescription, we have the obligation to ensure that those measures are valid. Nearly 10 years after an influential National Research Council ("2001") report on educational assessment identified an explicit model of cognition as one of three necessary components of a valid assessment…
Descriptors: Educational Assessment, Cognitive Processes, Models, Undergraduate Students