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Showing 1 to 3 of 3 for “"Knowledge in Pieces"”.
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On the role of student understanding of function and rate of change in learning differential equations
In this research, I utilize the theoretical perspective Knowledge In Pieces to identify the knowledge resources students utilize while in the process of completing various differential equations tasks. In addition I explore how this utilization changes over the course of a semester, and how …
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Context dependence of Physics students' responses to the term "radiation"
For the public to be able to participate meaningfully in debates regarding issues that are related to science and technology it is important that they are properly informed and that their sources of information are reliable. One source of such information are university science students and it is …
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DC circuits : contextual variation of student responses
… both school and university) have difficulties in understanding the concepts associated with DC circuits. Two competing theoretical frameworks have been advanced to explain these problems: "misconceptions" and "knowledge-in-pieces". The former is based on the assumption that student ideas are …