Article
K-8 Preservice Teachers’ Inductive Reasoning in the Problem-Solving Contexts
2012 Annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association
(2012)
Abstract
This paper reports the results from an exploratory study of K-8 pre-service teachers’ inductive
reasoning. The analysis of 130 written solutions to seven tasks and 77 reflective journals
completed by 20 pre-service teachers lead to descriptions of inductive reasoning processes, i.e.
specializing, conjecturing, generalizing, and justifying, in the problem-solving contexts. The
uncovered characterizations of the four inductive reasoning processes were further used to
describe pathways of successful generalizations. The results highlight the importance of
specializing and justifying in constructing powerful generalizations. Implications for teacher
education are discussed.
Disciplines
Publication Date
April, 2012
DOI
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Citation Information
Magiera, M. T. (2012). K-8 Pre-service Teachers’ Inductive Reasoning in Problem-solving Contexts. Paper presented at the 2012 annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association. Vancouver, Canada, April 14, 2012. Retrieved from the AERA Online Paper Repository http://www.aera.net/repository.