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Role and Process of Abduction in Elementary School Students' Generation of Hypotheses concerning Vapor Condensation  

Shim, Hae-Sook (Department of Science Education, Graduate School of Koreoa National University of Education)
Jeong, Jin-Su (Department of Science Education, Graduate School of Koreoa National University of Education)
Park, Kuk-Tae (Department of Science Education, Graduate School of Koreoa National University of Education)
Kwon, Yong-Ju (Department of Science Education, Graduate School of Koreoa National University of Education)
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Journal of the Korean earth science society / v.24, no.4, 2003 , pp. 250-257 More about this Journal
Abstract
The purpose of this study was to test the hypotheses that student's abductive reasoning ability plays an important role in hypothesis-generating about vapor condensation, and student's hypothesis-generating requires their causal explicans as well as experience. To test the hypotheses, the instruments of hypothesis-generation, prior knowledge, and experience with vapor condensation were developed and administered to 6th grade students. This study found that 72 subjects among 89 students who had prior knowledge about vapor condensation failed to apply their prior knowledge to hypothesis-generating about the vapor condensation. This result showed that the students' failure in hypothesis-generating was related to their deficiency in abductive reasoning ability. In addition, this study showed that 54 subjects among 56 students who had experience with vapor condensation also failed to generate hypotheses. This result supported that student's causal explanations were separated from their experience. Therefore, this study suggests that science education should include the teaching of abductive reasoning skills for developing student's hypothesis-generating skills.
Keywords
hypothesis-generating; vapor condensation; prior knowledge; abductive reasoning; causal explicans;
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