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Lauren C. Bauman; Trà Hu?nh; Amy D. Robertson – Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2024
Literature on student ideas about circuits largely focuses on misunderstandings and difficulties, with seminal papers framing student thinking as stable, difficult to change, and connected to incorrect ontological categorizations of current as a thing rather than a process. In this paper, we analyzed 417 student responses to a conceptual question…
Descriptors: Physics, Sequential Learning, Abstract Reasoning, Electronic Equipment
Lespiau, Florence; Tricot, André – Educational Psychology Review, 2019
According to Geary's evolutionary approach, humans are able to easily acquire primary knowledge and, with more efforts, secondary knowledge. The present study investigates how primary knowledge contents can facilitate the learning of formal logical rules, i.e., secondary knowledge. Framing formal logical problems in evolutionary salient contexts…
Descriptors: Epistemology, Learning Motivation, Abstract Reasoning, Logical Thinking
Simon, Martin A. – PNA, 2016
This paper describes an emerging approach to the design of task sequences and the theory that undergirds it. The approach aims at promoting particular mathematical concepts, understood as the result of reflective abstraction. Central to this approach is the identification of available student activities from which students can abstract the…
Descriptors: Instructional Design, Sequential Learning, Mathematics Instruction, Mathematical Concepts