Learning to Understand the Forms of Causality Implicit in Scientifically Accepted Explanations

By Tina A. Grotzer. 2003

85 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: History and Philosophy of Science, Management Science and Operations Research, Statistics and Probability

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In History and Philosophy of Science

1. Eve Manz
2. Clark A. Chinn
3. Corinne Zimmerman

In Management Science and Operations Research

1. Eve Manz
2. Corinne Zimmerman

In Statistics and Probability

1. Eve Manz
2. Ala Samarapungavan
3. Corinne Zimmerman

Citations in the corpus

• Resistance and the Development of Scientific Practice: Designing the Mangle Into Science Instruction (2015, background): “This was due to seasonal change and life cycle processes but was a puzzling result for young students, who often privilege visible individual, health-based variables over population or community-based measures that require conceptualizing causal chains distributed over long stretches of time (Grotze”
• Expanding the Dimensions of Epistemic Cognition: Arguments From Philosophy and Psychology (2011, background): “Some students may believe that knowledge is fully deterministic (Grotzer, 2003); these students may have difficulty comprehending texts that present theories in which the world is described as relatively unpredictable.”
• The Development of Scientific Thinking Skills in Elementary and Middle School. (2007, background): “Variations in mental models of experimentation and/or mental models of causality may underlie these performance variations (e.g., Grotzer, 2003; Kuhn, Black, Keselman, & Kaplan, 2000), and these issues will be addressed more fully in subsequent sections (to preview, the inXuence of perceived goal…”