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"Laboratory Exercises Help Me Memorize the Scientific Truths": A Study of Eighth Graders' Scientific Epistemological Views and Learning in Laboratory Activities.
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Tsai, Chin-Chung – Science Education, 1999
Describes a study that explored the interplay between students' scientific epistemological views (SEVs) and their learning in school laboratory activities. Finds that students having SEVs oriented to constructivist views of science tend to focus more on negotiating the meanings of experiments with their peers than students with SEVs more in line…
Descriptors: Constructivism (Learning), Discourse Analysis, Epistemology, Foreign Countries