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DIFFERENCE AND RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN QUALITATIVE AND

INTERACTIVE MODELING

Teachers have a duty to provide students with a learning environment that

is as close to ideal as practicable and create a conductive atmosphere in

order to maximize students' learning. With progress in technology and the

advent of new teaching aids, the key research interests have stemmed

from how to effectively integrate information technology into learning, how

to effectively manipulate the different teaching styles the facilitate the

transition from traditional unidirectional learning into interactive learning

and understanding the impact of using these teaching styles on learning.

Qualitative modeling concerns representation and reasoning about

continuous aspects of entities and systems in a symbolic, human-like

manner. People who have never heard of differential equations successfully

reason about the common sense world of quantities, motion, space, and

time. They do so often in circumstances offering little information, using

the ability to characterize broad categories of outcomes to ascertain what

might happen while Interactive Modeling is a straightforward, quickly

paced, seven-step process that's effective for teaching children any

academic or social skill, routine, or procedure that you want them to do in

a specific way (whether for safety, efficiency, or other reasons). One of the

essential practices of the  Responsive Classroom   approach to teaching

elementary school children, Interactive Modeling can be used by any adult

anywhere in school at any time of year.

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Relationship between qualitative and interactive

modeling

Both modeling are a central skill in scientific reasoning and

provides a way of articulating knowledge. Learning to formulate,

test, and revise models is a crucial aspect of understanding

science and is critical to helping students become active, lifelong

learners. Supporting students in articulating models of a domain

and refining them through experience, reflection, and discussion

with peers and teachers can lead to deeper, systematic

understanding of science However, modeling formalisms have

traditionally been associated with creating mathematical models

and deriving numeric results. Such approaches fail to capture

many crucial aspects of models, such as the conditions under

which a model is applicable, and are relatively inaccessible to

younger children, such as middle school students. In contrast,

qualitative reasoning formalisms provide ontological primitives

capable of capturing a conceptual analysis of system behavior,

including notions such as causality Recently, qualitative model-

building environments have been proposed that allow learners toarticulate knowledge using graphic representations of these

intuitive notions.