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The Roles of Substantive and Procedural Understanding in Open-Ended Science Investigations: Using Fuzzy Set Qualitative Comparative Analysis to Compare Two Different Tasks
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Glaesser, Judith; Gott, Richard; Roberts, Ros; Cooper, Barry – Research in Science Education, 2009
We examine the respective roles of substantive understanding (i.e., understanding of factual knowledge, concepts, laws and theories) and procedural understanding (an understanding of ideas about evidence; concepts such as reliability and validity, measurement and calibration, data collection, measurement error, the ability to interpret evidence…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Investigations, Data Analysis, Comparative Analysis