It's okay to be wrong: Recognizing mechanistic reasoning during student inquiry

ICLS 2006 - International Conference of the Learning Sciences, Proceedings

Volumn 2, Issue , 2006, Pages 641-647

  Russ, Rosemary S ^a   Hutchison, Paul ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

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Indexed keywords

CODING SCHEME; CONCEPTUAL UNDERSTANDING; ENGAGING STUDENTS; HISTORY AND PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE; INQUIRY-BASED; SCIENCE EDUCATION; SCIENTIFIC KNOWLEDGE;

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DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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