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Instructional explanations as an interface - The role of explanatory primitives
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Shulamit Kapon and Andrea A. diSessa
What makes an instructional sequence in physics meaningful to students? Why do some explanations seem more plausible than others? Why is it that an explanation can appear plausible to one student but not to another? We present a model that addresses these questions. Elaborating diSessa's (1993) concept of p-prims, we develop a model of explanatory primitives and argue that different individuals have different sets of explanatory primitives, or they assign different priorities to the same explanatory primitives. Individual differences in explanatory primitives can account for differences in reactions to an instructional explanation, and we present empirical data to support this claim. We then use the model to analyze Jim Minsrell's (1982) instructional sequence about normal forces to illustrate how an effective learning sequence addresses differences between individuals by evoking a rich set of explanatory primitives.
Physics Education Research Conference 2010
Part of the PER Conference series Portland, Oregon: July 21-22, 2010 Volume 1289, Pages 189-192
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<a href="https://www.compadre.org/portal/items/detail.cfm?ID=10446">Kapon, Shulamit, and Andrea diSessa. "Instructional explanations as an interface - The role of explanatory primitives." Paper presented at the Physics Education Research Conference 2010, Portland, Oregon, July 21-22, 2010.</a>
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S. Kapon and A. diSessa, , presented at the Physics Education Research Conference 2010, Portland, Oregon, 2010, WWW Document, (https://www.compadre.org/Repository/document/ServeFile.cfm?ID=10446&DocID=1904).
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S. Kapon and A. diSessa, Instructional explanations as an interface - The role of explanatory primitives, presented at the Physics Education Research Conference 2010, Portland, Oregon, 2010, <https://www.compadre.org/Repository/document/ServeFile.cfm?ID=10446&DocID=1904>.
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Kapon, S., & diSessa, A. (2010, July 21-22). Instructional explanations as an interface - The role of explanatory primitives. Paper presented at Physics Education Research Conference 2010, Portland, Oregon. Retrieved April 18, 2024, from https://www.compadre.org/Repository/document/ServeFile.cfm?ID=10446&DocID=1904
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Kapon, Shulamit, and Andrea diSessa. "Instructional explanations as an interface - The role of explanatory primitives." Paper presented at the Physics Education Research Conference 2010, Portland, Oregon, July 21-22, 2010. https://www.compadre.org/Repository/document/ServeFile.cfm?ID=10446&DocID=1904 (accessed 18 April 2024).
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Kapon, Shulamit, and Andrea diSessa. "Instructional explanations as an interface - The role of explanatory primitives." Physics Education Research Conference 2010. Portland, Oregon: 2010. 189-192 Vol. 1289 of PER Conference. 18 Apr. 2024 <https://www.compadre.org/Repository/document/ServeFile.cfm?ID=10446&DocID=1904>.
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@inproceedings{
Author = "Shulamit Kapon and Andrea diSessa",
Title = {Instructional explanations as an interface - The role of explanatory primitives},
BookTitle = {Physics Education Research Conference 2010},
Pages = {189-192},
Address = {Portland, Oregon},
Series = {PER Conference},
Volume = {1289},
Month = {July 21-22},
Year = {2010}
}
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