Pathways of Conceptual Change: Investigating the Influence of Experimentation Skills on Conceptual Knowledge Development in Early Science Education

Proceedings of the 37th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, CogSci 2015

Volumn , Issue , 2015, Pages 620-625

  Edelsbrunner, Peter A ^a   Schalk, Lennart ^a   Schumacher, Ralph ^a   Stern, Elsbeth ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

elementary school; experimentation skills; knowledge development; knowledge structure; science education

Indexed keywords

EDUCATION COMPUTING; MARKOV PROCESSES; MIXTURES;

CONCEPTUAL CHANGE; CONCEPTUAL KNOWLEDGE; ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS; EXPERIMENTATION SKILL; KNOWLEDGE DEVELOPMENT; KNOWLEDGE STRUCTURES; MIXTURE MODELING; PRIOR-KNOWLEDGE; SCIENCE EDUCATION; STUDENT KNOWLEDGE;

STUDENTS;

EID: 84975623040     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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