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Direct linkIbrahim, Bashirah; Ding, Lin; Mollohan, Katherine N.; Stammen, Andria – African Journal of Research in Mathematics, Science and Technology Education, 2016
Scientific reasoning is crucial to any scientific discipline. One sub-skill particularly relevant to the scientific enterprise is theory evidence coordination. This study, underpinned by Kuhn's framework for scientific reasoning, investigates how university students coordinate their self-generated theory and evidence in a physics topic (energy)…
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Science Instruction, Physics, Task Analysis
Jacobsen, Rebecca; Halvorsen, Anne-Lise; Frasier, Amanda Slaten; Schmitt, Adam; Crocco, Margaret; Segall, Avner – Theory and Research in Social Education, 2018
This mixed-methods study analyzed adolescents' evaluation of the trustworthiness of different kinds of evidence and their reasons for why they trusted (or did not trust) them. Specifically, we analyzed adolescents' rankings of seven kinds of evidence in the abstract and in the context of a settled historical event (school desegregation) and…
Descriptors: High School Students, Thinking Skills, Comprehension, Evidence
Heckler, Andrew F.; Bogdan, Abigail M. – Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2018
A critical component of scientific reasoning is the consideration of alternative explanations. Recognizing that decades of cognitive psychology research have demonstrated that relative cognitive accessibility, or "what comes to mind," strongly affects how people reason in a given context, we articulate a simple "cognitive…
Descriptors: Science Process Skills, Abstract Reasoning, Thinking Skills, Physics
