"An Experiment Is When You Try It and See if It Works" [microform] : A Study of Junior High School Students' Understanding of the Construction of Scientific Knowledge / Susan Carey and Others
- Bib ID:
- 5500544
- Format:
- Book and Microform
- Author:
- Carey, Susan
- Online Version:
- https://eric.ed.gov/?id=ED303366
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- Description:
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- [Washington, D.C.] : Distributed by ERIC Clearinghouse, 1988
- 37 p.
- Summary:
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Developing a constructivist view of scientific inquiry and knowledge is considered to be important to the training of future scientists, as well as to the understanding of scientific information by all citizens. The research reported targets the junior high school grades. Curricular materials that introduce seventh graders to the constructivist view of science have been developed and implemented. Students' initial epistemological stance concerning scientific knowledge is that knowledge is a passively acquired, faithful copy of the world, and that the inquiry process is limited solely to observing nature, rather than constructing explanations of phenomena in nature. The assumption guiding this curricular intervention is that if students are to gain a better understanding of the nature of scientific inquiry and knowledge, they must be actively involved in constructing and evaluating explanations for natural phenomena, and they must be engaged in metaconceptual reflection on that process. (CW)
- Notes:
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- Sponsoring Agency: Office of Educational Research and Improvement (ED), Washington, DC.
- Contract Number: OERI-400-83-0041.
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- Microfiche. [Washington D.C.]: ERIC Clearinghouse microfiches : positive.
- Subject:
- Other authors/contributors:
- Educational Technology Center, Cambridge, MA
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- ERIC
- Copyright:
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- 1988
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