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Science 30 January 2009:
Vol. 323. no. 5914, pp. 586 - 587
DOI: 10.1126/science.1167740
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Education Forum

PHYSICS:
Learning and Scientific Reasoning

Lei Bao,1* Tianfan Cai,2 Kathy Koenig,3 Kai Fang,4 Jing Han,1 Jing Wang,1 Qing Liu,1 Lin Ding,1 Lili Cui,5 Ying Luo,6 Yufeng Wang,2 Lieming Li,7 Nianle Wu7

Comparisons of Chinese and U.S. students show that content knowledge and reasoning skills diverge.

1Department of Physics, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH 43210, USA.

2Department of Physics, Beijing Jiaotong University, Beijing 100044, China.

3Department of Physics, Wright State University, Dayton, OH 45435, USA.

4Department of Physics, Tongji University, Shanghai 200092, China.

5Department of Physics, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, Baltimore, MD 21250, USA.

6Department of Physics, Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875, China.

7Department of Physics, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China.

*Author for correspondence. E-mail: bao.15{at}osu.edu

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