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Direct linkTang, Xiaowei; Elby, Andrew; Hammer, David – Science Education, 2020
Through analysis of a classroom lesson led by a decorated teacher, we illustrate how instructional practices favor students seeking empirical patterns at the expense of using mechanistic reasoning. In the lesson, when students spontaneously come up with hypothetical mechanisms to explain why a light bulb in an electric circuit does or does not…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Pattern Recognition, Logical Thinking, Concept Formation
