APS
29th APS Annual Convention · 2017
Mastermind Strategy Discovery in Middle Schoolers Related to Scientific Reasoning Ability
- Jean-Baptiste Quillien
University of Minnesota - Keisha Varma
University of Minnesota - Martin Van Boekel
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign - Purav Patel
University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
Abstract
A study, investigating the relationship between scientific reasoning and the capacity to discover the strategy to play an hypothetico-deductive game (MasterMind), posits that students being able to discover Complex Strategies were also, on average, performing higher on an overall measure of scientific reasoning, composed of evaluative, experimental and scientific knowledge.
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