Modelling learners and learning in science education : developing representations of concepts, conceptual structure and conceptual change to inform teaching and research / Keith S. Taber.
This book sets out the necessary processes and challenges involved in modeling student thinking, understanding and learning. The chapters look at the centrality of models for knowledge claims in science education and explore the modeling of mental processes, knowledge, cognitive development and conc...
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Table of Contents:
- Part I: Introduction
- Ch. 1. The centrality of models for knowledge claims in science education
- Part II: Modelling mental processes in the science learner
- Ch. 2. Introduction to Part II: The mental register
- Ch. 3. Modelling mental activity
- Ch. 4. The learner's ideas
- Ch. 5. The learner's memory
- Ch. 6. The learner's understanding
- Ch. 7. The learner's thinking
- Part III: Modelling the science learner's knowledge
- Ch. 8. Introduction to Part III: Knowledge in a cognitive system approach Ch. 9. The nature of the learner's knowledge
- Ch. 10. Relating the learner's knowledge to publicl knowledge
- Ch. 11. Components of personal knowledge: Characterising the learner's conceptual resources
- Ch. 12. The structure of the learner's knowledge
- Part IV: Modelling development and learning
- Ch. 13. Introduction to Part IV: Development and learning
- Ch. 14. Models of cognitive development
- Ch. 15. Modelling conceptual learning
- Ch. 16. Implications for research.