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Peer reviewedPushkin, David B. – Journal of College Science Teaching, 1997
Recommends a constructivist approach to physics laboratory activities to make laboratories a place for personal maturation and cognitive growth. Describes class design in which ideas and techniques are exchanged which allow students the opportunity to initiate investigations based on early conceptual assumptions, and extend the investigation…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Constructivism (Learning), Creative Thinking, Critical Thinking


