Abstract
The purpose of this study was to analyze the thinking processes of biologists' abductive reasoning on science knowledge generation. Four creative biologists's thinking process were analyzed as their abductive thinking of science knowledge generation. Raw protocols were collected by the thinkaloud interview method and then analyzed by a psychological modelling procedure. The present study has found that the knowledge generation of question, hypotheses, test method and criteria for evaluating, and conclusion were influenced by abductive reasoning. Also, abductive reasoning as procedural knowledge for generating of declarative knowledge was influenced replicatively, complementarily and cyclically each other. Therefore, the instruction with abductive reasoning could be proposed as one of effective instructions for increasing students' creative science idea generation skill.
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