Strategy Levels for Guiding Discussion to Promote Explanatory Model Construction in Circuit Electricity

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written by E. Grant Williams and John J. Clement

A framework for describing and tracking the whole-class discussion-based teaching strategies used by a teacher to support students' construction and development of explanatory models for concepts in circuit electricity is described. A new type of diagram developed to portray teacher-student discourse patterns facilitated the identification of two distinct types, or levels, of teaching strategies: 1) those that support dialogical or conversational elements of classroom interaction; and 2) those that support cognitive model construction processes. The latter include the higher-level goals of promoting a cycle of Observation, model Generation, model Evaluation, and model Modification. While previous studies have focused primarily on the dialogical strategies that are essential for fostering communication as an enabling condition, the cognitive strategies identified herein are aimed at fostering conceptual model construction.

Physics Education Research Conference 2006
Part of the PER Conference series
Syracuse, New York: July 26-27, 2006
Volume 883, Pages 169-172

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Education Foundations - Cognition Education Practices - Pedagogy = Instructional Issues	- Lower Undergraduate	- Reference Material = Research study

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Mirror:: https://doi.org/10.1063/1.2508719
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Restriction:: © 2006 American Institute of Physics
DOI:: 10.1063/1.2508719
NSF Number:: 0231808
PACSs:: 01.40.Fk; 01.40.gb
Keywords:: PERC 2006, conceptual model construction, construction of explanatory models, development of explanatory models, electricity, electricity, teaching methods
Record Creator:: Metadata instance created June 4, 2007 by Shawn Weatherford
Record Updated:: July 16, 2013 by Lyle Barbato
Last Update when Cataloged:: January 30, 2007
Other Collections:: The PER-Central

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Williams, E. Grant, and John Clement. "Strategy Levels for Guiding Discussion to Promote Explanatory Model Construction in Circuit Electricity." Paper presented at the Physics Education Research Conference 2006, Syracuse, New York, July 26-27, 2006. https://www.compadre.org/Repository/document/ServeFile.cfm?ID=5259&DocID=2136 (accessed 26 April 2024).

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Williams, E. Grant, and John Clement. "Strategy Levels for Guiding Discussion to Promote Explanatory Model Construction in Circuit Electricity." Physics Education Research Conference 2006. Syracuse, New York: 2006. 169-172 Vol. 883 of PER Conference. 26 Apr. 2024 <https://www.compadre.org/Repository/document/ServeFile.cfm?ID=5259&DocID=2136>.

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