{"language":[{"iso":"eng"}],"date_updated":"2023-08-14T18:17:51Z","publication_identifier":{"unknown":["978-88-945874-0-1"]},"publication_status":"published","editor":[{"first_name":"Olivia","full_name":"Levrini, Olivia","last_name":"Levrini"},{"full_name":"Tasquir, Giulia","first_name":"Giulia","last_name":"Tasquir"},{"first_name":"Ebru","full_name":"Kaya, Ebru","last_name":"Kaya"},{"last_name":"Vesterinen","first_name":"Veli-Matti","full_name":"Vesterinen, Veli-Matti"}],"department":[{"_id":"386"}],"title":"Creativity in data analysis through confrontation with anomalous data","place":"Bologna","page":"751-759","citation":{"ieee":"P. Pollmeier and S. Fechner, “Creativity in data analysis through confrontation with anomalous data,” in The beauty and pleasure of understanding: engaging with contemporary challenges through science education. Electronic Proceedings of the ESERA 2019 Conference. , Bologna, 2019, pp. 751–759.","short":"P. Pollmeier, S. Fechner, in: O. Levrini, G. Tasquir, E. Kaya, V.-M. Vesterinen (Eds.), The Beauty and Pleasure of Understanding: Engaging with Contemporary Challenges through Science Education. Electronic Proceedings of the ESERA 2019 Conference. , ALMA MATER STUDIORUM - University of Bologna, Bologna, 2019, pp. 751–759.","bibtex":"@inproceedings{Pollmeier_Fechner_2019, place={Bologna}, title={Creativity in data analysis through confrontation with anomalous data}, booktitle={The beauty and pleasure of understanding: engaging with contemporary challenges through science education. Electronic Proceedings of the ESERA 2019 Conference. }, publisher={ALMA MATER STUDIORUM - University of Bologna}, author={Pollmeier, Pascal and Fechner, Sabine}, editor={Levrini, Olivia and Tasquir, Giulia and Kaya, Ebru and Vesterinen, Veli-Matti}, year={2019}, pages={751–759} }","mla":"Pollmeier, Pascal, and Sabine Fechner. “Creativity in Data Analysis through Confrontation with Anomalous Data.” The Beauty and Pleasure of Understanding: Engaging with Contemporary Challenges through Science Education. Electronic Proceedings of the ESERA 2019 Conference. , edited by Olivia Levrini et al., ALMA MATER STUDIORUM - University of Bologna, 2019, pp. 751–59.","chicago":"Pollmeier, Pascal, and Sabine Fechner. “Creativity in Data Analysis through Confrontation with Anomalous Data.” In The Beauty and Pleasure of Understanding: Engaging with Contemporary Challenges through Science Education. Electronic Proceedings of the ESERA 2019 Conference. , edited by Olivia Levrini, Giulia Tasquir, Ebru Kaya, and Veli-Matti Vesterinen, 751–59. Bologna: ALMA MATER STUDIORUM - University of Bologna, 2019.","apa":"Pollmeier, P., & Fechner, S. (2019). Creativity in data analysis through confrontation with anomalous data. In O. Levrini, G. Tasquir, E. Kaya, & V.-M. Vesterinen (Eds.), The beauty and pleasure of understanding: engaging with contemporary challenges through science education. Electronic Proceedings of the ESERA 2019 Conference. (pp. 751–759). ALMA MATER STUDIORUM - University of Bologna.","ama":"Pollmeier P, Fechner S. Creativity in data analysis through confrontation with anomalous data. In: Levrini O, Tasquir G, Kaya E, Vesterinen V-M, eds. The Beauty and Pleasure of Understanding: Engaging with Contemporary Challenges through Science Education. Electronic Proceedings of the ESERA 2019 Conference. . ALMA MATER STUDIORUM - University of Bologna; 2019:751-759."},"type":"conference","year":"2019","conference":{"start_date":"2019-08-26","name":"ESERA 2019 Conference. The beauty and pleasure of understanding: engaging with contemporary challenges through science education,","location":"Bologna","end_date":"2019-08-30"},"_id":"23756","date_created":"2021-09-03T12:45:24Z","has_accepted_license":"1","status":"public","keyword":["epistemology","conceptual change","anomalous data"],"publication":"The beauty and pleasure of understanding: engaging with contemporary challenges through science education. Electronic Proceedings of the ESERA 2019 Conference. ","author":[{"first_name":"Pascal","full_name":"Pollmeier, Pascal","last_name":"Pollmeier","id":"44191"},{"orcid":"0000-0001-5645-5870","full_name":"Fechner, Sabine","first_name":"Sabine","id":"54823","last_name":"Fechner"}],"publisher":"ALMA MATER STUDIORUM - University of Bologna","ddc":["370"],"user_id":"54823","abstract":[{"lang":"eng","text":"Creativity is perceived to be one of the core competences to succeed in the modern world. It is\r\nconnected to art, music, dancing, etc., but there is just little insight into the role of creativity in\r\nscience. As data analysis plays a major role in science, creative thinking has to be used to form\r\ntheories out of observations. This study uses models-of-data to represent the mental model of\r\nthe students. Within models-of-data different observations and previous knowledge are linked\r\nthrough different types of links, e.g. causal links. The goal of this study was to examine the\r\ncreative aspect of data evaluation in presence of anomalous data. The students were confronted\r\nwith two experiments which contradicted each other with regard to the underlying theory.\r\nAfterwards the students were asked to decide about their favored theory and reasoning about\r\ntheir choice in their lab reports. The model-of-data, which was reconstructed from the lab\r\nreports of the students, was used to extract creative aspects in the mental modelling process.\r\nFurthermore, a pre-post-questionnaire on epistemological beliefs of the students was\r\nconducted. Students mostly acquired an unscientific view on epistemology in school. The\r\nquestion was whether the confrontation with anomalous data and the triggering of creative\r\nmodelling processes have any influence on this.\r\nThe results show that most students did not take anomalous data into account in their modelling\r\nprocesses. They did either not recognise or just ignore the data. Just a few students worked on\r\ntheir theory because of the new, contradictory data. The students working on their theory\r\nscored higher in the post-questionnaire, so a positive effect of creativity on scientific\r\nepistemology can be assumed. Thus, creativity obviously gets a part of science and should be\r\ntaught in school science in order to make students aware of their own creative potential."}]}