multiple models

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"A perspective on models that sees them as tools – which are partial representations with limited ranges of application – allows the modeller (or model user) to accept that several different, and apparently incoherent, models may collectively give greater insight than an approach that relies on a single model." (Taber, 2008, p.79)

Author: Keith

Former school and college science teacher, teacher educator, research supervisor, and research methods lecturer. Emeritus Professor of Science Education at the University of Cambridge.