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- Title
The Use of Rule Structures in Teaching Experimental Design to Secondary-School Students.
- Authors
Ross, John A.; Robinson, Floyd O.
- Abstract
The article investigates the use of rule structures in teaching experimental design to secondary school students. In this study varying the treatment of rules in alternate instructional strategies had little effect on learning the skill of experimental design. Researchers combine two dimensions to produce three alternative ways in which rule structures could be used in teaching experimental design. First is implicit rules in which rules would not be made visible to students although the interaction of teachers with students would be guided by a checklist that outlines the steps or component operations of the procedure. Second is the teacher-enunciated rules where a student would be given the rule structure at the outset of instruction. The rules would then be exemplified with examples of designs for particular experiments. Third is student-retrieved rules where the student, as a large group, would develop a set of rules for designing experiments.
- Subjects
EXPERIMENTAL design; SCIENTIFIC method; SCIENTIFIC experimentation; SECONDARY education; INSTRUCTIONAL systems; TEACHING; EDUCATION; TEACHERS; STUDENTS
- Publication
Science Education, 1987, Vol 71, Issue 4, p571
- ISSN
0036-8326
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1002/sce.3730710409