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International Journal of STEM Education
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From: Development of Two-Dimensional Classroom Discourse Analysis Tool (CDAT): scientific reasoning and dialog patterns in the secondary science classes

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During a series of dialogs, a teacher can help students transfer their reasoning from everyday reasoning to scientific reasoning. The distances between the components in each ER and SR illustrate the relative difficulty of transformations. Thus, the most difficult transformation would be from NE to MT and the best transformation could happen from SE to OD followed by EP to OD and NE to OD (adapted from Anderson’ book, Teaching Science for Motivation and Understanding, 2006)

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