Knowledge Building as a Mediator of Conflict in Conceptual Change
Knowledge Building as a Mediator of Conflict in Conceptual Change
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知识构建作为概念变革中冲突的调解者
DOI:
10.1207/s1532690xci1501_1
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发表时间:
1997
影响因子:
3.3
通讯作者:
C. Bereiter
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作者:
Carol K. K. Chan;J. Burtis;C. Bereiter
This study examined how individuals and peers process scientific information that contradicts what they believe and assessed the contribution of this activity to conceptual change. Participants included 54 students in Grade 9 and 54 students in Grade 12, who were randomly assigned to four conditions: (a) individual conflict, (b) peer conflict, (c) individual assimilation, and (d) peer assimilation. Depending on the condition, students were asked to think aloud or discuss with their peers eight scientifically valid statements, which were presented in an order that either maximized or minimized the conflict between new information and existing beliefs. Pretest and posttest measures of prior knowledge and conceptual change were obtained, and student verbalizations were tape-recorded and coded for five levels of knowledge-processing activity. Two major approaches were identified from this analysis: direct assimilation, which involved fitting new information with what was already known, and knowledge building,...