"Authentic Tasks" and "Extreme Tasks": Potential Approaches to Overcoming Incorrect Responses in Conservation Tasks

Autor/in	Ronen, Ilana
Titel	"Authentic Tasks" and "Extreme Tasks": Potential Approaches to Overcoming Incorrect Responses in Conservation Tasks
Quelle	In: International Journal of Science and Mathematics Education, 16 (2018) 7, S.1337-1354 (18 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1571-0068
DOI	10.1007/s10763-017-9831-5
Schlagwörter	Grade 5; Grade 7; Grade 9; Comparative Analysis; Conservation (Concept); Student Reaction + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? School year 05; 5. Schuljahr; Schuljahr 05; School year 07; 7. Schuljahr; Schuljahr 07; School year 09; 9. Schuljahr; Schuljahr 09; Konservierung; Schülerkritik
Abstract	This study begins the task of mapping out two approaches that may be helpful in overcoming incorrect responses to conservation tasks, focusing on the non-conserved quantity. The incorrect responses, which were the result of over-generalizations of conservation, and gradually increased with age despite formal knowledge and minor perceptual input, were explained as being consistent with the intuitive rule "same A--same B." The following paper presents initial findings, involving 60 students (5th, 7th, 9th grade), who were presented with "authentic tasks" and 40 9th grade students who were presented with "extreme tasks." As data show, in both "authentic tasks" and extreme tasks, the percentage of participants' correct responses was higher compared to students' responses to formal analogue tasks, although there was no difference in participants' declarative judgments. Indeed, further research is needed to improve students' responses and judgments not only in analogous and everyday tasks but also on how learning tasks can be designed, and to understand the observed gap between the students' performance and their declarative knowledge. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01