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What is Scientific Thinking and How Does It Develop?
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This chapter contains sections titled: What is scientific thinking? Developmental Origins of Scientific Thinking Coordination of Theory and Evidence in the Early School Years Phases of Scientific Thinking: Inquiry, Analysis, Inference, and Argument The Role of Meta-Level Processes in Scientific Thinking Scientific Thinking as a Social Process Educating Scientific Thinking and Thinkers
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Direct instruction vs. discovery: The long view
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“…Analysis (designing an investigation, and interpreting data), Inference (drawing conclusions), Argument (entering claims into scientific discourse) (Kuhn, 2001, 2002, 2005) Kuhn & Pease (2008) Phases Middle-school students Identification of a question or questions, Design of an investigation to…”
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- Kuhn, D.
- Venue
- Blackwell Handbook of Childhood Cognitive Development
- Publisher
- Wiley
- Published
- 2002-01
- Pages
- 371-393
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- 6
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- Language
- en
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