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Astrid Berg; Magnus Hultén – Chemistry Education Research and Practice, 2024
The importance of introducing students to mechanistic reasoning (MR) early in their schooling is emphasised in research. The goal of this case study was to contribute with knowledge on how early primary students' (9-10 year-olds) MR in chemistry is expressed and developed in a classroom practice framed by model-based inquiry. The study focuses on…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Abstract Reasoning, Chemistry, Scientific Concepts
Waern, Yvonne – 1976
It is suggested that a reader's idea structure will affect processing of incoming information. Two aspects of the idea structure are further developed--the truth value aspect and the analytic level aspect. The idea structure can be characterized by ideas consisting of propositions which are considered to be more or less true or false (beliefs), or…
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Beliefs, Cognitive Processes, Comprehension