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Download full textBlosser, Patricia E. – 1987
Some science educators who are interested in conceptual development have considered the phenomenon of student misconceptions and alternative frameworks. Researchers have used a variety of terms to describe the situation in which students' ideas differ from those of a scientist about a particular concept. This digest was produced to briefly…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Cognitive Measurement, Cognitive Processes, Cognitive Structures
Peer reviewedHausfather, Samuel J. – Science and Children, 1992
Conceptual change teaching is an instructional method that helps students modify, extend, or exchange their alternative conceptions for the appropriate scientific conceptions. Provides activities and a diagnostic test to apply the method to the concepts of heat and temperature. (MDH)
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Cognitive Measurement, Concept Formation, Diagnostic Tests
Peer reviewedMulopo, Moses M.; Fowler, H. Seymour – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 1987
Reports on a study that examined the differential effectiveness of traditional and discovery methods of chemistry instruction in Zambia. Compared were the teaching of science concepts, understandings about science, and scientific attitudes to learners at the concrete and formal levels of cognitive development. (TW)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Chemistry, Cognitive Ability, Cognitive Measurement
