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Central Role of Students’ Reasoning

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In this chapter, the focus of Robert Karplus’s work on students’ reasoning will be revisited. The emphasis on exploring and understanding students’ reasoning in multiplicative conceptual domains, beyond the elementary school, is central in the mathematics and science education-related work of Robert Karplus. About 30 years ago, at a time when the emphasis in mathematics and science education research was on students’ achievement test scores and related statistical group averages, Robert Karplus launched a sequence of studies focusing on identifying and classifying students’ reasoning as they attempted to solve a variety of well-designed problems (or at times they were referred to as puzzles) that purposefully embedded key mathematical concepts such as proportions, control of variables, probability, correlations and others. It is the quality of students’ thinking and how they had reasoned that Karplus and his colleagues focused on, rather than the correct/incorrect answers students may have given.

AESOP (Advancement of Education in Sceince-Oriented Programs) is supported by a grant from the National Science Foundation.

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    Helen Adi Khoury

  2. Science Curriculum Improvement Study, Lawrence Hall of Science, University of California, Berkeley, California, 94720, USA

    Elizabeth F. Karplus, Robert Karplus & Rita W. Peterson

  3. AESOP, Lawrence Hall of Science, University of California, Berkeley, California, 94720, USA

    Elizabeth F. Karplus, Robert Karplus, Warren Wollman, Stephen Pulos, Helen Adi & Anton E. Lawson

  4. Campolindo High School, Moraga, California, USA

    Elizabeth F. Karplus

  5. University of Rome, Rome, Italy

    Marina Formisano

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    Albert-Christian Paulsen

  7. Group in Science and Mathematics Education and Lawrence Hall of Science, University of California, Berkeley, California, 94720, USA

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