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Chapter 5
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5.4
5.4.6
Prestructural: No answer
Unistructural: Few aspects mentioned
Multistructural: Several aspects described
Relational: Aspects analyzed and explained
Extended abstract: Additionally, discuss the possible consequences in the future
Method
Educational Context
• Relational: Simulations performed systematically. The relevance for the research question is made clear.
• Extended abstract: Additionally: The relevance for the research question is clear and substantiated.
Analysis.
• Prestructural: nothing
• Unistructural: some results reported
• Multistructural: results described in an appropriate manner
• Relational: results described in an appropriate manner. The relation
between the values of model parameters and the output data
analyzed
• Extended abstract: Additionally, explain or hypothesize about the
relation between the values of model parameters and the output data
Answer the research question.
• Prestructural: No answer
• Unistructural: Simple answer
• Multistructural: Elaborate answer, but the coherent picture not
formed
• Relational: Elaborate answer, coherent picture of the parts and the
whole formed
• Extended abstract: Additionally, discussion Reflection.
Four classes participated in this study: one 11th grade VWO class and two 12th grade VWO classes which we all treated as one for the purpose of this research, and one 11th grade HAVO class. The data were collected in two schools in classes