Box Diagrams to Assess Students' Systems Thinking about the Rock, Water and Carbon Cycles

Journal of Geoscience Education | March 1, 2007| | Copyright

ABSTRACT

Box-diagrams of reservoirs and processes that describe the rock, water and carbon cycles were used in a general education course as instructional and assessment tools. Students overall success at constructing correct box-diagram models of the water cycle demonstrates that they have three critical abilities: 1) to identify substances, locations of substances and processes that move and change substances in a system, 2) to organize the substances and processes within different frameworks and 3) to understand the generally cyclic nature of a system. Many students lack a fourth critical ...

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