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Conference Paper: Are the data sufficient for evaluating a claim? Students' reasoning about data
Title | Are the data sufficient for evaluating a claim? Students' reasoning about data |
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Issue Date | 2016 |
Citation | The 2016 Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association (AERA), Washington, DC., 8-12 April 2016. How to Cite? |
Abstract | The study aimed to understand how students evaluate sufficiency of data for evaluating a science claim. The paper reports students’ responses to this evaluation and whether their domain-specific concepts relate to their responses. Participants in Grades 6-8 evaluated whether data presented were sufficient for evaluating a claim on Newton’s First Law. The claim varied in consistency with participants’ concepts about the topic. The data presented were of low quality, which included big experimental errors and were obtained from a study without replication. We found that participants roughly considered the data were insufficient for claim evaluation, justified by 5 meaningful categories of reasons. The effect of domain-specific concepts on this evaluation was absent. Implications for instruction and research are discussed. |
Description | Meeting Theme: Public Scholarship to Educate Diverse Democracies |
Persistent Identifier | http://hdl.handle.net/10722/226527 |
DC Field | Value | Language |
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dc.contributor.author | Ma, GZ | - |
dc.contributor.author | van Aalst, JCW | - |
dc.contributor.author | Chan, CKK | - |
dc.date.accessioned | 2016-06-17T07:44:42Z | - |
dc.date.available | 2016-06-17T07:44:42Z | - |
dc.date.issued | 2016 | - |
dc.identifier.citation | The 2016 Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association (AERA), Washington, DC., 8-12 April 2016. | - |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10722/226527 | - |
dc.description | Meeting Theme: Public Scholarship to Educate Diverse Democracies | - |
dc.description.abstract | The study aimed to understand how students evaluate sufficiency of data for evaluating a science claim. The paper reports students’ responses to this evaluation and whether their domain-specific concepts relate to their responses. Participants in Grades 6-8 evaluated whether data presented were sufficient for evaluating a claim on Newton’s First Law. The claim varied in consistency with participants’ concepts about the topic. The data presented were of low quality, which included big experimental errors and were obtained from a study without replication. We found that participants roughly considered the data were insufficient for claim evaluation, justified by 5 meaningful categories of reasons. The effect of domain-specific concepts on this evaluation was absent. Implications for instruction and research are discussed. | - |
dc.language | eng | - |
dc.relation.ispartof | Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association, AERA 2016 | - |
dc.title | Are the data sufficient for evaluating a claim? Students' reasoning about data | - |
dc.type | Conference_Paper | - |
dc.identifier.email | Ma, GZ: gzma@connect.hku.hk | - |
dc.identifier.email | van Aalst, JCW: vanaalst@hku.hk | - |
dc.identifier.email | Chan, CKK: ckkchan@hku.hk | - |
dc.identifier.authority | Ma, GZ=rp01898 | - |
dc.identifier.authority | van Aalst, JCW=rp00965 | - |
dc.identifier.authority | Chan, CKK=rp00891 | - |
dc.identifier.hkuros | 258327 | - |