A growing body of research shows that analogies may be powerful tools for guiding students from their naive conceptions towards science concepts. Recent research indicates that students' well-understandings of base domain and their own analogical mapping between base and target domain can be effective in fostering conceptual change. However, the research fails to foster students' conceptual change as many as possible. The purpose of this study is to assess the efficacy using Web Knowledge Forum, a CSCL system, to support analogies bringing most of students' conceptual change.
First of all, we try to localize the interface of Web Knowledge Forum for supporting students' well-understandings of base domain and their own analogical mapping. Second, we conduct an experimental lesson using Web Knowledge Forum. This lesson is designed to learn animal growth and development during 5th grade science unit. Base domain in this lesson is human, target domain is other animals. Third, we analyze students' understandings about base domain and target domain before and after the lesson, and relation their conceptual change and analogical mapping between base and target using Web Knowledge Forum. The result shows that all students understand human growth and development (namely base domain) well. Furthermore, all students' naive conceptions about animal growth and development (namely target domain) change science conceptions during analogical mapping using Web Knowledge Forum.
雑誌名
科学教育研究
巻
29
号
1
ページ
25 - 38
発行年
2005-03-10
出版者
日本科学教育学会
Japan Society for Science Education (JSSE)
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Web Knowledge Forum に支援されたアナロジーと概念変化 : 動物の発生と成長をテーマとした小学校の理科授業を事例にして
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