Fostering Scientific Reasoning Skills through Interactive Learning Tasks

Immanuel Albrecht, Hermann Körndle

2013

Abstract

Scientific reasoning is a key skill in academic contexts and may be trained with interactive learning tasks, that require learners to explicitly give reasons for their solution. We provide a general, mathematically motivated algebraic model for reasoning tasks that enables computer-based analysis of answers and feedback generation, especially in the case of tasks that have distinct permissible correct solutions; furthermore we present our ready sample implementation guided by that model.

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Albrecht I. and Körndle H. (2013). Fostering Scientific Reasoning Skills through Interactive Learning Tasks . In Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Computer Supported Education - Volume 1: CSEDU, ISBN 978-989-8565-53-2, pages 393-398. DOI: 10.5220/0004352103930398


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@conference{csedu13,
author={Immanuel Albrecht and Hermann Körndle},
title={Fostering Scientific Reasoning Skills through Interactive Learning Tasks},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Computer Supported Education - Volume 1: CSEDU,},
year={2013},
pages={393-398},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0004352103930398},
isbn={978-989-8565-53-2},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Computer Supported Education - Volume 1: CSEDU,
TI - Fostering Scientific Reasoning Skills through Interactive Learning Tasks
SN - 978-989-8565-53-2
AU - Albrecht I.
AU - Körndle H.
PY - 2013
SP - 393
EP - 398
DO - 10.5220/0004352103930398