KC and alternative conception scores were also used to categorize teachers' reasoning patterns as: explicitly scientific explanations, mixed explanations (naïve + scientific), explicitly naïve, or no clearly articulated or comprehensible idea (e.g., the teacher answered by rephrasing the question).
At least with Reagan, voters had a comprehensible idea of where he wished to take the country.
Explanations convey information about concepts or processes with the goal of making clear and comprehensible an idea or set of ideas.
The outcome is sometimes barely comprehensible, but gives a rough idea of what is possible.
However in recent years, astronomers, artists, linguists and anthropologists have been converging on the idea that creating comprehensible messages for aliens is much harder than it seems.
A scientist is part of what the Polish philosopher of science Ludwik Fleck called a "thought collective": a group of people exchanging ideas in a mutually comprehensible idiom.
Educators want to introduce students to topics that can be made comprehensible only by drawing on the ideas and methods of many scientific disciplines, one of the reasons climate change and other large-scale environmental problems are seen as holding so much potential in the classroom.
Any communication technology can be a medium for knowledge building discourse as long as it enables people to represent and preserve ideas in a form comprehensible to others and allows for discussion and revision.
This was not an ethereal ghost but a concrete manifestation of a spiritual idea, an abstraction made comprehensible by stunningly pure form.
This article shows how the ideas can be combined as a comprehensible whole by first documenting all the ideas as transcribed text – not only as post-its, which often leave crucial points of view out as the space of a post-it is limited – and then refining and synthesising the ideas by writing them as a futures projection.
Nonetheless, he did manage to knot together in the final sections several of his lifelong themes in a very comprehensible way, among them his objection to "gene-centric" ideas of evolution.
