Cognitive and Metacognitive Aspects in Conceptual Change by Analogy.

Mason, Lucia

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Publication Date: 1994

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Cognitive and Metacognitive Aspects in Conceptual Change by Analogy.

Mason, Lucia

Instructional Science, v22 n3 p157-87 1994

Reports on a qualitative study of teaching-learning by analogy that explores whether fifth-grade students' successful use of analogy in learning science was related to their understanding of a specific analogy; their metacognitive awareness of how the analogy was to be used and of the changes produced in their conceptual structures. (57 references) (KRN)

Descriptors: Biology, Concept Formation, Concept Teaching, Educational Research, Elementary Education, Elementary School Science, Grade 5, Learning Processes, Metacognition, Prior Learning, Qualitative Research, Self Evaluation (Individuals), Thinking Skills

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Language: English

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