Enhancing systems-thinking skills with modelling

British Journal of Educational Technology

Volumn 39, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 1099-1120

  Hung, Woei ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH DAKOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

STUDENTS; SYSTEM THEORY;

COGNITIVE SKILLS; COGNITIVE TOOLS; GRADUATE STUDENTS; MODELLING; SYSTEMS THINKINGS; THINKING SKILLS;

COGNITIVE SYSTEMS;

EID: 54549120423     PISSN: 00071013     EISSN: 14678535     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8535.2007.00791.x     Document Type: Article

References (32)

1. Ackoff, R. (1981). Creating the corporate future. New York : John Wiley.
2. Alessi, S. (2000). Designing educational support in system-dynamics-based interactive learning environments. Simulation & Gaming, 31, 2, 178 196.
3. Bagno, E. Eylon, B. (1997). From problem solving to a knowledge structure: an example from the domain of electromagnetism. American Journal of Physics, 65, 726 736.
4. Barbas, A. Psillos, D. (1997). Causal reasoning as a base for advancing a systemic approach to simple electrical circuits. Research in Science Education, 27, 3, 445 459.
5. Barton, K. C. Marks, M. J. (2000). 'I need to shut up and let them talk more': beginning teachers reflect on children's understanding of social studies (ERIC Document Reproduction Service No. ED 450043).
6. Basca, B. B. Grotzer, T. A. (2001, April). Focusing on the nature of causality in a unit of pressure: how does it affect student understanding? Paper presented at the American Educational Research Association (AERA), Seattle, WA. (ERIC Document Reproduction Service No. ED 456029).
7. Bloom, B. S. (1986). The hands and feet of genius: automaticity. Educational Leadership, 43, 5, 70 77.
8. Capra, F. (1996). The web of life: a new scientific understanding of living systems. New York : Doubleday.
9. Carey, S. (2002). The origin of concepts: Continuing the conversation. In N. L. Stein, P. J. Bauer M. Rabinowitz (Eds Representation, memory, and development: essays in honor of Jean Mandler (pp. 43 52). Mahwah, NJ : Erlbaum.
10. Clark, A. (1997). Being there: putting brain, body, and world together again. Cambridge, MA : MIT Press.
11. deKleer, J. Brown, J. S. (1981). Mental models of physical mechanisms and their acquisition. In J. R. Anderson (Ed Cognitive skills and their acquisition (pp. 285 309). Hillsdale, NJ : Erlbaum.
12. Doyle, J. K. (1997). The cognitive psychology of systems thinking. System Dynamics Review, 13, 3, 253 265.
13. Drummond-Young, M. Mohide, E. A. (2001). Developing problems for use in problem-based learning. In E. Rideout (Ed Transforming nursing education through problem-based learning (pp. 165 191). Boston : Jones & Bartlett.
14. Forrester, J. W. (1961). Industrial dynamics. Cambridge, MA : MIT Press.
15. Funke, J. (2001). Dynamic systems as tools for analyzing human judgement. Thinking and Reasoning, 7, 1, 69 89.
16. Green, D. W. (1997). Explaining and envisaging an ecological phenomenon. British Journal of Psychology, 88, 199 217.
17. Guenther, R. K. (1998). Human cognition. Upper Saddle River, NJ : Prentice Hall.
18. Kali, Y., Orion, N. Eylon, B. (2003). Effect of knowledge integration activities on students' perception of the earth's crust as a cyclic system. Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 40, 6, 545 565.
19. Lewis, E. L. (1991, April). The development of understanding in elementary thermodynamics. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association, Chicago, IL.
20. Lieux, E. M. (2001). A skeptic's look at PBL. In B. J. Duch, S. E. Groh D. E. Allen (Eds The power of problem-based learning: a practical 'how to' for teaching undergraduate courses in any discipline (pp. 223 235). Sterling, VA : Stylus Publishing.
21. Linn, M. C. Hsi, S. (2000). Computers, teachers, peers: Science learning partners. Hillsdale, NJ : Erlbaum.
22. Mandinach, E. B., Thorpe, M. E. Lahart, C. M. (1988). The impact of the systems thinking approach on teaching and learning activities (ERIC Document Reproduction Service No. ED 305928).
23. Nisbett, R. Ross, L. (1980). Human inference: strategies and shortcomings of social judgment. Englewood Cliffs, NJ : Prentice Hall.
24. Ossimitz, G. (2000, August). Teaching system dynamics and systems thinking in Austria and Germany. In P. Davidsen, D. N. Ford A. N. Mashayekhi (Eds Proceedings of the 18th International Conference System Dynamics Society_2000_4p.pdf
25. Perkins, D. N. Grotzer, T. A. (2000, April). Models and moves: focusing on dimensions of causal complexity to achieve deeper scientific understanding. Paper presented at the American Educational Research Association annual conference, New Orleans, LA (ERIC Document Reproduction Service No. ED 441698).
26. Skyttner, L. (2001). General systems theory: ideas and applications. London : World Scientific.
27. Songer, N. B. Linn, M. C. (1991). How do students' views of science influence knowledge integration? Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 28, 761 784.
28. Spiro, R. J., Coulson, R. L., Feltovich, P. Anderson, D. K. (1988). Cognitive flexibility theory: Advanced knowledge acquisition in ill-structured domains. Tenth Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 375 383). Hillsdale, NJ : Erlbaum.
29. Sterman, J. D. (2002). All models are wrong: reflections on becoming a systems scientist. System Dynamics Review, 18, 4, 501 531.
30. Sweeney, L. B. Sterman, J. D. (2000). Bathtub dynamics: initial results of a systems thinking inventory. System Dynamics Review, 16, 4, 249 286.
31. Von Bertalanffy, L. (1969). General system theory: foundations, development, application (revised ed.). New York : George Braziller.
32. White, B. Frederiksen, J. (1995). An overview of the thinker tools inquiry project (Causal Model Research Group Report No. CM-95-04). Berkeley, CA : School of Education, University of California at Berkeley.