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ERIC Number: EJ480229
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 1993
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ISSN: ISSN-0022-4308
Understanding the Generative Capacity of Analogies as a Tool for Explanation.
Wong, David E.
Journal of Research in Science Teaching, v30 n10 p1259-72 Dec 1993
Examines analogical reasoning in contexts where understanding is generated from loosely organized, incomplete prior knowledge rather than transferred from a well-structured domain of understanding. Participants, consisting of 11 secondary school science teacher candidates, were presented with a piston/cylinder device and asked to explain the phenomena and then create their own analogies. (PR)
Descriptors: Concept Formation, Educational Research, High Schools, Higher Education, Physics, Preservice Teacher Education, Science Education, Science Instruction, Scientific Concepts, Secondary School Science, Teaching Methods
Publication Type: Reports - Research; Journal Articles
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Language: English
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Identifiers: Analogies; Analogy; Science Education Research
Note: Special Issue: The Role of Analogy in Science and Science Teaching