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ERIC Number: EJ560055
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 1998
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ISSN: ISSN-0047-231X
Stepping Back from the Picture To See More Than the Dots.
Donovan, Michael P.
Journal of College Science Teaching, v27 n4 p245-46 Feb 1998
Argues that students are conditioned by years of multiple-choice testing to use only simple recall and view knowledge as an uncataloged museum full of independent facts that are collected, recited, and left to gather dust. (DDR)
Descriptors: Concept Formation, Higher Education, Knowledge Representation, Learning Strategies, Metacognition, Problem Solving, Science Curriculum, Student Evaluation, Thinking Skills
Publication Type: Guides - Classroom - Teacher; Journal Articles
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Language: English
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