Toward an Epistemology of Physics
- A. diSessa
- Education, Physics
- 1 April 1993
(1993). Toward an Epistemology of Physics. Cognition and Instruction: Vol. 10, No. 2-3, pp. 105-225.
Design Experiments in Educational Research
- P. Cobb, J. Confrey, A. diSessa, R. Lehrer, L. Schauble
- Business
- 1 January 2003
In this article, the authors first indicate the range of purposes and the variety of settings in which design experiments have been conducted and then delineate five crosscutting features that…
Changing Minds: Computers, Learning, and Literacy
- A. diSessa
- Education
- 2000
Rejecting the simplistic notion that the computer is merely a tool for more efficient instruction, diSessa shows how computers can be the basis for a new literacy that will change how people think and learn.
Metarepresentation: Native Competence and Targets for Instruction
- A. diSessa
- Education
- 1 September 2004
The premise of this article is that the study of representation is valuable and important for mathematics and science students. Learning about representation should go beyond learning specific,…
Misconceptions Reconceived: A Constructivist Analysis of Knowledge in Transition
- J. P. Smith, A. diSessa, J. Roschelle
- Education
- 1 April 1994
This article uses a critical evaluation of research on student misconceptions in science and mathematics to articulate a constructivist view of learning in which student conceptions play productive…
What changes in conceptual change
- A. diSessa, B. Sherin
- Education
- 1 December 1998
This paper has two aims. First, it reviews literature about conceptual change and about the study of concepts more broadly. The principal claim is that much prior work has suffered from…
Ontological Innovation and the Role of Theory in Design Experiments
- A. diSessa, P. Cobb
- Art
- 1 January 2004
The motivation for this article is our belief that theory is critically important but currently underplayed in design research studies. We seek to characterize and illustrate a genre of theorizing…
Coherence versus fragmentation in the development of the concept of force
- A. diSessa, N. Gillespie, Jennifer B. Esterly
- PsychologyCognitive Sciences
- 1 November 2004
Why “Conceptual Ecology” is a Good Idea
- A. diSessa
- Education
- 2002
This paper motivates the idea of “conceptual ecology” by critiquing the current mainstream of conceptual change research. Most research on conceptual change suffers from too little theoretical…
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