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Morell, Linda; Collier, Tina; Black, Paul; Wilson, Mark – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 2017
This paper builds on the current literature base about learning progressions in science to address the question, "What is the nature of the learning progression in the content domain of the structure of matter?" We introduce a learning progression in response to that question and illustrate a methodology, the Construct Modeling (Wilson,…
Descriptors: Scientific Concepts, Middle School Students, Public Schools, Models
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Shin, Hyo Jeong; Wilson, Mark; Choi, In-Hee – Journal of Educational Measurement, 2017
This study proposes a structured constructs model (SCM) to examine measurement in the context of a multidimensional learning progression (LP). The LP is assumed to have features that go beyond a typical multidimentional IRT model, in that there are hypothesized to be certain cross-dimensional linkages that correspond to requirements between the…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Student Evaluation, Measurement Techniques, Learning Processes
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Lin, Yi-Hung; Wilson, Mark; Cheng, Ching-Lin – European Journal of Psychology of Education, 2013
In teaching, representations are used as ways to illustrate the concepts underlying a specific topic. For example, use symbols (e.g., 1?+?2?=?3) to express the concept of addition. To compare students' abilities to interpret different representations in mathematics, the symbolic representation (SR) test and the pictorial representation (PR) test…
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, Symbols (Mathematics), Pictorial Stimuli, Grade 6