The initial data to be collected about student reasoning about complexity dimensions in the context of biology may take multiple forms such as constructed models, short answer explanations, interviews, or multiple-choice questions.
Even though the results are instantaneous, some laboratory technicians and doctors said that at home, patients do not check their sugar levels daily or at different times of the day, leading to inaccurate or inconclusive results (LT13, 14; PP1, 3, 5, see Table 1 for explanation of interview codes).
"Ms Moss declined to provide any explanation when interviewed, and the direct eyewitnesses also declined to provide evidence".
All household members were given a similar explanation and interviews were only conducted if verbal consent was given by the household head and by the respective household members.
(2012) describe more generally how students construct scientific explanations from conceptual nodes in their cognitive structure to form "dynamic mental constructs" that shift and converge on a formed explanation through interviews and probing.
At a time when Field Marshal Tantawi has refused public explanations or interviews, the cables provide some insight into the American Embassy's perception of his priorities.
It's not something I realised at the time, but seeing various different explanations in interviews of something I'd know about, I'd think, "Ah, so that's what you're like!" I always email him on his birthday, to remind him he's four months older than me.
To examine correlations between written explanations and interviews, we calculated Kendall's tau-B for lexical categories of these two groups.
Students' written explanations or verbal explanations in an interview may be the most effective way to reveal the nuances of student reasoning about complexity, especially pertaining to the processes and manifestations present in the system.
Giovanni provided one explanation in an interview last week.
