A modelling challenge : untangling learner knowledge

Nicolas Balacheff (1)

1 Leibniz - IMAG - Laboratoire Leibniz

For now about three decades, systematic research on students learning of science and mathematics has evidenced a great variety of the possible understanding for a given notion, as well as an important sensitivity of these understandings to contexts. Students' knowing appears as a tangle of local conceptions of which we have a very partial and unorganised picture. We present here the outlines of the modelling tool we have developed, and of its framework, in order to give account of learners' knowings in a coherent way although preserving the realm of their diversity and heterogeneity.

Domains: Technology for Human Learning

Nicolas Balacheff. A modelling challenge : untangling learner knowledge. L'apprentissage, une approche transdisciplinaire (JIOSC 2000), 2000, Orsay, France. pp.7-16. ⟨hal-00190292⟩