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Direct linkRadhakrishnan, Phanikiran; Lam, Dianne; Tamura, Elaine Kong – Teaching of Psychology, 2010
The guided experimentation method requires that students learn how a database works by generating and testing hypotheses about it (i.e., become skilled at strategies of experimentation). These strategies are essential to learning by inquiry, which is linked to argumentation. We conducted a quasi-experimental field study to show that students who…
Descriptors: Databases, Experiments, Hypothesis Testing, Persuasive Discourse
