Scientific Reasoning Research Institute - kinesthetic imagery http://www.srri.umass.edu/taxonomy/term/47/0 en stephens-2008asr http://www.srri.umass.edu/node/474 <div class="pub-title">Anchoring student reasoning in prior knowledge: Characteristics of anchoring cases in a curriculum</div> <div class="pub-authors">Stephens, A. Lynn <br />Clement, John J.</div> <div class="pub-year">(2008)</div> <div class="pub-citation"><p>Proceedings of the 2008 Annual Meeting of the National Association for Research in Science Teaching (NARST), Baltimore, MD.</p> </div> <div class="pub-abstract"> <p>We analyze strategies for selecting and honing Anchoring Cases, which are used to elicit useful—but often implicitly held—prior knowledge possessed by most students. In an innovative model-based high school mechanics curriculum, each unit presents a Target Case, designed to elicit a persistent misconception, and an Anchoring Case. These are connected by a set of Bridging Analogies that enable the students to transfer a conception from Anchor to Target in a series of gradual steps. The curriculum has produced significant gain differences over traditional instruction on measures of understanding. This suggests the usefulness of the pedagogical strategies; however, experience has shown that it is no easy matter to create successful Anchoring Cases. We analyzed these Anchoring Cases in terms of their consistency with previously identified expert design strategies and newly identified strategies. We have organized and honed the strategies into a coherent framework (part of a much larger framework presented in Clement, 2008a), designed to help with 1) predicting which Anchoring Cases are likely to be effective; 2) developing new Anchoring Cases; 3) forming an initial theory about how and why Anchors work. These findings have implications for lesson design, teaching strategies, and pedagogical theories of conceptual change.</p> </div> <table id="attachments" class="sticky-enabled"> <thead><tr><th>Attachment</th><th>Size</th> </tr></thead> <tbody> <tr class="odd"><td><a href="http://www.srri.umass.edu/sites/srri/files/NARST08StepClemAnchors.pdf">Complete conference paper (PDF)</a></td><td>448.7 KB</td> </tr> </tbody> </table> http://www.srri.umass.edu/node/474#comments analogy anchoring cases curriculum analysis high school imagery kinesthetic imagery physics Mon, 12 Apr 2010 23:47:24 +0000 lstephens 474 at http://www.srri.umass.edu