Software-realized inquiry support for cultivating a disciplinary stance
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 22936576 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Izabela Tabak (0000-0002-7646-2346, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev), Iris Tabak (Ben-Gurion University of the Negev), Brian J Reiser (0000-0002-2961-0385, Northwestern University) |
| Year | 2008 |
| Volume | 16 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 307-355 |
| Publication date | 2008-07-24 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Pragmatics & Cognition (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0929-0907 • E-ISSN: 1569-9943 |
| Publisher | John Benjamins Publishing Company (PUBLISHER • NL) |
| DOI | 10.1075/pc.16.2.06tab |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
What role can technology play in cultivating a disciplinary stance — raising questions, planning investigations, interpreting data and constructing explanations in a way that reflects disciplinary values and principles? How can overt and tacit expert scientific knowledge be captured, represented and used to design software that enables novices to assume a disciplinary stance in their investigations? We present The Galapagos Finches software designed to foster a biological and evolutionary stance. Our approach, Discipline-Specific Strategic Support (DSSS), translates the main variable types, comparison types and relationships in a discipline into manipulable objects in the interface. Pre/post-tests show how DSSS helps achieve a balance between content and process goals. A contrastive-case microanalysis of high, medium and low-achieving students’ inquiry shows progress toward a disciplinary stance. Our study shows how software representations carry multiple levels of meaning, and that the efficacy of learning technologies hinges on reflection at both the navigation and disciplinary-signification levels.
| Citations per year | 0.25 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2022 - 2022 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |