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Direct linkCheng, Meng-Fei; Brown, David E. – International Journal of Science Education, 2010
This study explores 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. It further investigates what conceptual resources students use, and in what ways they use them, to construct explanatory models, and the…
Descriptors: Models, Intuition, Metacognition, Cognitive Processes
