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Direct linkRoth, Wolff-Michael; Lee, Yew Jin; Hwang, SungWon – Cultural Studies of Science Education, 2008
Over the past three decades, science educators have accumulated a vast amount of information on conceptions--variously defined as beliefs, ontologies, cognitive structures, mental models, or frameworks--that generally (at least initially) have been derived from interviews about certain topics. During the same time period, cultural studies has…
Descriptors: Cognitive Structures, Concept Formation, Scientific Concepts, Cultural Influences
Peer reviewedRoth, Wolff-Michael – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 2000
Advocates artificial neural networks as models for cognition and development. Provides an example of how such models work in the context of a well-known Piagetian developmental task and school science activity: balance beam problems. (Contains 59 references.) (Author/WRM)
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes, Cognitive Structures, Concept Formation
Peer reviewedRoth, Wolff-Michael; Roychoudhury, Anita – School Science and Mathematics, 1993
Discusses Vee mapping, a technique to assist students in categorizing the relationship between the conceptual and procedural aspects of science. Presents a study to investigate elementary education majors' (n=27) use of the Vee heuristic and concept mapping for the construction of knowledge; attitudes toward learning science in collaborative…
Descriptors: Cognitive Structures, Concept Formation, Concept Mapping, Constructivism (Learning)
