Table 2.
Scientific concepts targeted in conceptual understanding tests for three argumentative activities
| Representation levels | Scientific concepts in argumentation activity 1 | Scientific concepts in argumentation activity 2 | Scientific concepts in argumentation activity 3 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Macro | Survival | Phenotype | Reservoir of infection |
| 2 | Macro | Learned behaviors | CD4 and CCR5 proteins | Susceptible population |
| 3 | Symbolic | Intra-species diversity | Virus transfection | Route of transmission |
| 4 | Symbolic | Proportional and typological change | Virus attachment | Maternal mortality rate |
| 5 | Sub-micro | Inheritance of traits | Clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats gene editing | Pathogenic microorganism |