A Test of the Confirming Abduction Model

• 발행기관: 개인저작물
• 저자명: Jin-Su Jeong Yong-Ju Kwon
• 간행물 정보: 『개인저작물 - 사회』제27권 제2호, 120~125쪽, 전체 6쪽
• 주제분류: 사회과학 > 개인저작물
• 파일형태: PDF
• 발행일자: 2007.03.01

영문 초록

The purpose of the present study was to test the validity of the confirming abduction model (CAM). CAM is a process model which explains how reasoners confirm their hypothetical explicans. To teat this model, 154 8th grade students were sampled from one middle school in Korea. Three types of vapor condensation hypothesis confirming tests were developed and administered to the subjects. The results of this study revealed that student confidence increased when hypothetical explicans were borrowed into experienced phenomena from questioning phenomena. These results validated CAM. According to CAM, the process of confirming hypothetical explican is as follows: representing a questioning phenomenon, representing an experienced phenomenon that is similar to the questioning phenomenon, representing the hypothetical explican of the questioning phenomenon, comparing the questioning phenomenon with the experienced phenomenon, and borrowing the hypothetical explican as the hypothetical explican of the experienced phenomenon from the hypothetical explican of the questioning phenomenon. This study also discussed the implications of these findings for teaching and learning in science education.

키워드

hypothesis confirming abduction model hypothetical explican questioning phenomenon experienced phenomenon