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Download full textMason, Lucia – 1995
This study investigated fourth graders' (N=18) self-generated analogies and the effects of their collaborative reasoning and arguing over these analogies on individual understanding of three scientific phenomena concerning air pressure. The data were subjected to both a qualitative and quantitative analysis. The first showed that the children, on…
Descriptors: Analogy, Concept Formation, Cooperative Learning, Foreign Countries
