{"pk":26096,"title":"Three barriers to effective thought experiments, as revealed by a system thatexternalizes students’ thinking","subtitle":null,"abstract":"This study aimed to develop a Thought Experiment External-izer (TE-ext) and to apply it in order to observe barriers toproblem solving. TE-ext enables students to visualize a prob-lem situation. Users of TE-ext can implement changes in thesituation and see the result as an animation. Experimentaluse of TE-ext identified three barriers to conducting an effec-tive thought experiment (TE). First, participants tended not tochange the situation from the original one; second, incorrect orinappropriate knowledge was applied to the situation; third, theparticipants did not apply the results of their TE to other situa-tions. These factors prevented participants from rejecting theirinitial incorrect model and finding a new one through TEs.","language":"eng","license":{"name":"","short_name":"","text":null,"url":""},"keywords":[{"word":"Thought experiment; scientific reasoning; scienceeducation system; problem solving"}],"section":"Papers","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/8bw9q45p","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Miki","middle_name":"","last_name":"Matsumuro","name_suffix":"","institution":"Nagoya University","department":""},{"first_name":"Kazuhisa","middle_name":"","last_name":"Miwa","name_suffix":"","institution":"Nagoya University","department":""}],"date_submitted":null,"date_accepted":null,"date_published":"2016-01-01T18:00:00Z","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"PDF","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/26096/galley/15732/download/"}]}