Multiple Conceptual Models of a Complex System.

Abstract

This paper describes some of the strategies and knowledge tutors use in teaching about the causes of rainfall. Underlying a tutor's ability to diagnose and correct students' misconceptions are a set of models of the rainfall process. These models allow students to understand a system from different points of view and to derive the consequences of changing different critical variables in the model. Students' misconceptions often derive from incorrect models of the system and diagnosing these misconceptions requires expert knowledge of what distortions can occur in student's models. (Author)

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Aug 01, 1978
Accession Number
ADA063073

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  • Albert L. Stevens
  • Allan Collins

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