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ERIC Number: EJ618828
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 2000
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ISSN: ISSN-0263-5143
Tuition and Memory: Mental Models and Cognitive Processing in Japanese Children's Work on D.C. Electrical Circuits.
Asami, Noriaki; King, Julien; Monk, Martin
Research in Science and Technological Education, v18 n2 p141-54 Nov 2000
Focuses on the familiar problem of students' understanding of elementary electrical circuits from a much neglected point of view. Suggests that the patterning commonly found in students' ideas might have its roots in the cognitive processing with which students operate their mental models of d.c. electrical circuits. Studies Japanese 10-11 year olds living in the United Kingdom. (Contains 44 references.) (Author/YDS)
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes, Constructivism (Learning), Electric Circuits, Elementary Education, Foreign Countries, Memory, Physics, Piagetian Theory, Science Education
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
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Language: English
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Identifiers: Japan; Mental Models; United Kingdom