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Krist, Christina; Schwarz, Christina V.; Reiser, Brian J. – Journal of the Learning Sciences, 2019
Mechanistic reasoning, or reasoning systematically through underlying factors and relationships that give rise to phenomena, is a powerful thinking strategy that allows one to explain and make predictions about phenomena. This article synthesizes and builds on existing frameworks to identify essential characteristics of students' mechanistic…
Descriptors: Logical Thinking, Heuristics, Epistemology, Middle School Students
Levin, Mariana; Walkoe, Janet – ZDM: Mathematics Education, 2022
In this paper, we elaborate the "seeds of algebraic thinking" perspective, drawing upon Knowledge in Pieces as a heuristic epistemological framework. We argue that students' pre-instructional experiences in early childhood lay the foundation for algebraic thinking and are a largely untapped resource in developing students' algebraic…
Descriptors: Algebra, Mathematical Logic, Thinking Skills, Preschool Children
Monroe, Brian M.; Read, Stephen J. – Psychological Review, 2008
A localist, parallel constraint satisfaction, artificial neural network model is presented that accounts for a broad collection of attitude and attitude-change phenomena. The network represents the attitude object and cognitions and beliefs related to the attitude, as well as how to integrate a persuasive message into this network. Short-term…
Descriptors: Mathematical Models, Attitude Change, Schemata (Cognition), Beliefs