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Wu, Chao-Jung; Liu, Chia-Yu – Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2021
The purpose of this study was to explore how students with high- and low-prior-knowledge employed multiple representations in argumentation evaluation and generation tasks. The argumentation performance and eye-movement behaviors of 96 college students in these tasks were investigated. The number of participants who proposed complex argumentation…
Descriptors: Eye Movements, Prior Learning, Persuasive Discourse, College Students
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Golumbic, Yaela N.; Fishbain, Barak; Baram-Tsabari, Ayelet – International Journal of Science Education, Part B: Communication and Public Engagement, 2020
Citizen science is transforming the ways scientific knowledge is created, in that citizens participate in active scientific research, and large scientific databases can be accessed online. However, data availability does not guarantee public use or the relevance of these resources. This paper addresses the ways in which non-expert adults involved…
Descriptors: Scientific Literacy, Data Interpretation, Data Use, Lay People
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Sharma, S. V. – International Journal of Science and Mathematics Education, 2006
Concerns about students' difficulties in statistical reasoning led to a study which explored form five (14- to 16-year-olds) students' ideas in this area. The study focussed on descriptive statistics, graphical representations, and probability. This paper presents and discusses the ways in which students made sense of information in graphical…
Descriptors: Mathematical Concepts, Probability, Student Attitudes, Tables (Data)