COORDINATING THEORY AND EVIDENCE: THE BENEFITS OF A MODEL-BASED SCIENCE CURRICULUM

Published: Jan 1, 2002
Abstract
The Model-Assisted Reasoning in Science (MARS) project seeks to promote modelcentered instruction as a means of improving middle-school science education. As part of the evaluation of the sixth-grade curriculum, performance of MARS and non-MARS students was compared on a curriculum-neutral task. Fourteen students participated in structured interviews in which they experimented with a balance to identify and test potentially relevant factors. The...
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Title
COORDINATING THEORY AND EVIDENCE: THE BENEFITS OF A MODEL-BASED SCIENCE CURRICULUM
Published Date
Jan 1, 2002
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