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Peer reviewedBuffler, Andy; Allie, Saalih; Lubben, Fred; Campbell, Bob – International Journal of Science Education, 2001
Discusses the results of a study that explored first year university students' ideas about measurement in the physics laboratory. Uses the 'point' and 'set' paradigms as a model to analyze responses to written probes. (Contains 21 references.) (DDR)
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Cognitive Structures, Higher Education, Knowledge Representation
Peer reviewedLubben, Fred; Netshisaulu, Tom; Campbell, Bob – Science Education, 1999
Explores African students' use of traditional Sotho cultural metaphoric reasoning in classifying everyday situations as "hot" or "cold" in order to document the extent to which such metaphoric reasoning is related to science misconceptions of heating. Finds that university students were able to distinguish between types of…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Cognitive Structures, College Students, Cultural Background
