Integrating the epistemic and ontological aspects of content knowledge in science teaching and learning |
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| Authors: | Nicos Papadouris Constantinos P Constantinou |
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| Institution: | 1. Learning in Science Group, Department of Educational Sciences, University of Cyprus, Nicosia, Cyprus?npapa@ucy.ac.cy;3. Learning in Science Group, Department of Educational Sciences, University of Cyprus, Nicosia, Cyprus |
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| Abstract: | A study has been made of how physics problems are attempted by school and by university students, in both examination and tutorial situations. The performance of the students is interpreted within the framework of a psychological model of learning which incorporates working memory capacity and disembedding ability. The implications of the results for teaching and for setting problems is emphasized, in that the same question in different forms may be testing different skills. |
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| Keywords: | Conceptual understanding epistemological understanding epistemic value ontology |
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