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Underlying success in open-ended investigations in science: using Qualitative Comparative Analysis to identify necessary and sufficient conditions. (2009)
Journal Article
Glaesser, J., Gott, R., Roberts, R., & Cooper, B. (2009). Underlying success in open-ended investigations in science: using Qualitative Comparative Analysis to identify necessary and sufficient conditions. Research in Science and Technological Education, 27(1), 5-30. https://doi.org/10.1080/02635140802658784

Both substantive (i.e. factual knowledge, concepts, laws and theories) and procedural knowledge (understanding and applying concepts such as reliability and validity, measurement and calibration, data collection, measurement error, the ability to int... Read More about Underlying success in open-ended investigations in science: using Qualitative Comparative Analysis to identify necessary and sufficient conditions..

Educational Expansion and Meritocracy in Britain: a Boolean Analysis. (2009)
Book Chapter
Cooper, B., & Glaesser, J. (2009). Educational Expansion and Meritocracy in Britain: a Boolean Analysis. In R. Becker, & A. Hadjar (Eds.), Expected and unexpected consequences of educational expansion in Europe and the US. Theoretical approaches and empirical findings in comparative perspective (167-177). Haupt

The roles of substantive and procedural understanding in open-ended science investigations: using fuzzy set qualitative comparative analysis to compare two different tasks. (2009)
Journal Article
Glaesser, J., Gott, R., Roberts, R., & Cooper, B. (2009). The roles of substantive and procedural understanding in open-ended science investigations: using fuzzy set qualitative comparative analysis to compare two different tasks. Research in Science Education, 39(4), 595-624. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11165-008-9108-7

We examine the respective roles of substantive understanding (i.e., understanding of factual knowledge, concepts, laws and theories) and procedural understanding (an understanding of ideas about evidence; concepts such as reliability and validity, me... Read More about The roles of substantive and procedural understanding in open-ended science investigations: using fuzzy set qualitative comparative analysis to compare two different tasks..