Overcoming Misconceptions via Analogical Reasoning: Abstract Transfer versus Explanatory Model Construction.

Brown, David E.; Clement, John

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Publication Date: 1989

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Overcoming Misconceptions via Analogical Reasoning: Abstract Transfer versus Explanatory Model Construction.

Brown, David E.; Clement, John

Instructional Science, v18 n4 p237-61 Dec 1989

Discussion of students' prior knowledge and its effect on analogical reasoning focuses on four case studies of high school and college students that were designed to determine factors important for success in overcoming misconceptions via analogical reasoning. Explanatory models are explained, and abstract transfer versus explanatory model construction is discussed. (28 references) (LRW)

Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Analogy, Case Studies, Higher Education, Interviews, Learning Processes, Misconceptions, Models, Prior Learning, Research Needs, Secondary Education

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