Partial Possible Models: An Approach To Interpret Students' Physical Representation.

Camacho, Fernando Flores; Cazares, Leticia Gallegos

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ERIC Number: EJ558747

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Publication Date: 1998

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Partial Possible Models: An Approach To Interpret Students' Physical Representation.

Camacho, Fernando Flores; Cazares, Leticia Gallegos

Science Education, v82 n1 p15-29 Jan 1998

Illustrates the construction of conceptual models on pressure and flotation using high school students' previous ideas on these concepts. Identifies three models and uses them to analyze students' ideas about physical phenomena and to recognize the inferential structure they use. Contains 28 references. (DDR)

Descriptors: Concept Formation, Foreign Countries, High School Students, High Schools, Knowledge Representation, Learning Strategies, Models, Pressure (Physics), Prior Learning, Science Curriculum, Scientific Literacy, Vocabulary

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Language: English

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Identifiers - Location: Mexico

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