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Direct linkSlotta, James D.; Chi, Michelene T. H. – Cognition and Instruction, 2006
Chi (2005) proposed that students experience difficulty in learning about physics concepts such as light, heat, or electric current because they attribute to these concepts an inappropriate ontological status of material substances rather than the more veridical status of emergent processes. Conceptual change could thus be facilitated by training…
Descriptors: Difficulty Level, Physics, Heat, Light
