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http://dx.doi.org/10.14697/jkase.2017.37.1.0039

An Investigation of the Characteristics of Analogs Generated by High School Students on Ionic Bonding: A Comparison of Characteristics of Analogs Depending on Their Cognitive Variables  

Kim, Minhwan (Seoul National University)
Kwon, Hyeoksoon (Cheongju National University of Education)
Kim, Youjung (Seoul National University)
Noh, Taehee (Seoul National University)
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Journal of The Korean Association For Science Education / v.37, no.1, 2017 , pp. 39-48 More about this Journal
Abstract
In this study, we investigated the characteristics of analogs generated by high school students to explain ionic bonding in the perspectives of the number of analogs, the understanding of mapping, and the source and type of analogs. We also compared the results by students' conceptual understanding, logical thinking ability, and analogical reasoning ability. Participants in this study were 395 11th graders in Seoul. The results of the study showed that the higher the conceptual understanding, the logical thinking ability, and the analogical reasoning ability, the more the students generated the analogs. The understanding of mapping was related to logical thinking ability and analogical reasoning ability. It is noteworthy that the sources of analogs differed only depending on their conceptual understanding of the target concept among the cognitive variables studied. Students who had higher conceptual understanding also generated analogs from more diverse sources. Some types of the generated analogs were related to the cognitive variables. For examples, the students who had higher conceptual understanding and logical thinking ability generated more verbal/pictorial analogs. The types of analogs were not related to cognitive variables in terms of artificiality, abstraction, and systemicity. Educational implications of these findings were discussed.
Keywords
Self-generated analogy; Analogy; Ionic bonding; Cognitive variables;
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