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The battery-of-tests principle is familiar form fields such as medicine or chemical analysis,
"…for example, where an unknown sample may be subject to a wide range of distinct tests, including determinations of melting and boiling temperatures, tests for reaction with a range of reagents, and a wide variety of chromatographic and spectroscopic investigations" (Taber, 2008, p.71)
but can also be sen to have vlaue in education – for example in exploring a learner's concpetual ecology. Such an approach may be used when adopring analytical pluralism
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Read about the Role of Analytical Pluralism in Understanding Student Learning in Science
