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ERIC Number: EJ336508
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 1986
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Falsification in Experimental and Classroom Simulations.
Gorman, Michael E.
School Science and Mathematics, v86 n4 p306-21 Apr 1986
Discussed are three recent psychological experiments that demonstrate (1) how students can be instructed to falsify on two tasks that model scientific reasoning and (2) how the possibility of error in the data affects their attempts to falsify. Games were used in the treatments. (MNS)
Descriptors: College Students, Educational Games, Educational Research, Grouping (Instructional Purposes), Higher Education, Problem Solving, Science Education, Science Instruction
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
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Audience: Teachers; Practitioners
Language: English
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Identifiers: Science Education Research