@inproceedings{oai:nagoya.repo.nii.ac.jp:00008716, author = {Ichihara, Takafumi and Miwa, Kazuhisa}, book = {4th Symposium on "Intelligent Media Integration for Social Information Infrastructure" December 7-8, 2006}, month = {Dec}, note = {We constructed a science class where Japanese university freshmen experienced scientific activities. The class topic was the psychology of discovery. Students analyzed and described experimental data (description of phenomena) using a computerized microworld and constructed an explanation why the phenomena appeared (construction of an explanation). We evaluated its usefulness by analyzing the process by which participants collaboratively constructed explanations and the performance whether or not the participants successfully constructed the collect explanations.}, pages = {73--74}, publisher = {INTELLIGENT MEDIA INTEGRATION NAGOYA UNIVERSITY / COE}, title = {DESIGNING A SCIENCE CLASS USING A COMPUTERIZED MICROWORLD AND ITS EVALUATION}, year = {2006} }