The study introduces an analytic tool for untangling the processes of explanation-building in collaborative inquiry which takes a synchronous and diachronic approach to communicative and cognitive processes of student discourse.
The process of explanation can also be seen as involving the sharing of tacit knowledge with newcomers at the workplace.
The negative items were reversed so that higher scores reflected more consistenly the view of science as a process of explanation and argument.
Higher scores indicated more sophisticated views on NOS: In the NSAAQ, two contrasting viewpoints for each item (one of the viewpoints indicates a more naïve epistemological beliefs about NOS, the other indicates consistency with the view of science as a process of explanation and argument) are given by using a five-point scale.
Coming out to your family is not a one-time event: it is a long, multi-step process of explanation, conversation and reminders.
This process of explanation building starts with the development and refinement of a realist programme theory of interventions to change antimicrobial prescribing behaviours of doctors in training.
By having the technique, and adding more and more into the model, the whole process of explanation is left implicit – the assumption being that the more we add into the model, the better or more comprehensive our understanding will become.
The process of explanation that symptoms are not due to serious disease is commonly referred to as 'reassurance', and has been widely studied within medical care outside oncology (McDonald et al, 1996; Howard and Wessely, 1996; Kathol, 1997; Lucock et al, 1997; Coia and Morley, 1998; Starcevic, 2001).
For the IPC subscales, ATSM yielded significant improvements relative to usual care in explanations of processes of care, explanations of self-care, and empowerment and significant improvements relative to both usual care and GMV in elicitation of patient problems and decision-making (Table A1).
Important contributions come from this tradition; however, I will in this paper press the philosophy of science viewpoint, analyzing scientific activity from within and looking at the specific processes of modeling and explanation.
Findings support that the exploration of local perceptions in addition to the quantitative spatial assessment of land cover dynamics enhances the reliability of processes of interpretation and explanation of landscape change and improves the understanding of hidden dynamics and complex driving forces.
