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Lubben, Fred; Buffler, Andy; Campbell, Bob; Allie, Saalih – Science Education, 2001
Investigates procedural understanding of university students at the freshman level, prior to instruction, in the context of experimental work in physics. Proposes two types of reasoning used by students in the laboratory. Indicates a high degree of consistency of these modes of reasoning across experimental phases of data collection and…
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, College Students, Higher Education, Laboratory Experiments