Methodological issues in eliciting blend mental models: The context of sound propagation
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Zdeslav Hrepic, Dean A. Zollman, and N. Sanjay Rebello
While constructing their understanding in various science areas, students go through transitional phases that may involve richly developed and consistently used mental models. These transitional models are unique and coherent cognitive structures composed of the elements of both scientifically accepted models and the commonly used initial alternative models. Such models have been previously referred to as hybrid models or blend models. We discuss the nature of model blending in the context of sound propagation and suggest several solutions to methodological issues that surface in their qualitative and quantitative eliciting, such as linking answer choices across multiple questions, which we called Linked Item Model Analysis, LIMA.
Physics Education Research Conference 2016
Part of the PER Conference series
Sacramento, CA: July 20-21, 2016
Pages 160-163
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Hrepic, Z, D. Zollman, and N. Rebello. "Methodological issues in eliciting blend mental models: The context of sound propagation." Paper presented at the Physics Education Research Conference 2016, Sacramento, CA, July 20-21, 2016. https://www.compadre.org/Repository/document/ServeFile.cfm?ID=14219&DocID=4573 (accessed 7 April 2025).
Hrepic, Zdeslav, Dean Zollman, and N. Sanjay Rebello. "Methodological issues in eliciting blend mental models: The context of sound propagation." Physics Education Research Conference 2016. Sacramento, CA: 2016. 160-163 of PER Conference. 7 Apr. 2025 <https://www.compadre.org/Repository/document/ServeFile.cfm?ID=14219&DocID=4573>.
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Author = "Zdeslav Hrepic and Dean Zollman and N. Sanjay Rebello",
Title = {Methodological issues in eliciting blend mental models: The context of sound propagation},
BookTitle = {Physics Education Research Conference 2016},
Pages = {160-163},
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Year = {2016}
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