A microgenetic classroom study of learning to reason scientifically through modeling and argumentation
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We report on a large study of how U.S. middle-school students learned to reason scientifically in a science curriculum centered around models and argumentation. We discuss the design of our curriculum, the method of the study, and present selected results related to overall curriculum effects and to methods of promoting growth in students’ reasoning.
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