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Direct linkDeWitt, Jennifer; Osborne, Jonathan – International Journal of Science Education, 2010
One issue of interest to practitioners and researchers in science centres concerns what meanings visitors are making from their interactions with exhibits and how they make sense of these experiences. The research reported in this study is an exploratory attempt, therefore, to investigate this process by using video clips and still photographs of…
Descriptors: Scientific Concepts, Exhibits, Foreign Countries, Science Teaching Centers
Peer reviewedLinn, Marcia C.; And Others – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 1987
Discusses the gender differences revealed on the science content items of the National Assessment of Educational Progress Science Assessment. Examines explanations for the differences, including differential prior instruction, differential response to uncertainty, differential response to figurally presented items, and different attitudes toward…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Inquiry, Prior Learning, Science Education
Peer reviewedLarochelle, Marie; Desautels, Jacques – International Journal of Science Education, 1991
Identifies the unsophisticated assumptions and conjectures, both intuitive and empirical in character, underlying secondary school science students' (n=25) portrayal of scientific knowledge and its production. Structured interview protocols explored not only the students' substantive knowledge base but, perhaps more important, their ability to…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Concept Formation, Foreign Countries, Interviews
Peer reviewedDemastes, Sherry; Wandersee, James H. – Bioscience, 1992
Examines the proposed definition of biological literacy as the understanding of a small number of pervasive biological principles appropriate to making informed personal and societal decisions. Utilizes the content of a major daily newspaper to adjust biology instruction to focus on this notion of biological literacy. Discusses benefits and…
Descriptors: Biology, Classroom Techniques, Cognitive Style, Concept Formation
Download full textSmith, Edward L. – 1983
Research has established that students generally possess conceptions relevant to curricular topics before they begin to study them and that these preconceptions often persist despite instruction on scientific theories which contradict them. Discrepancies between students' post instruction conceptions and the scientific theories as taught often…
Descriptors: Attitude Change, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes, Concept Formation
Summers, Mike; Kruger, Colin; Mant, Jenny – 1997
This book was written for practicing primary (elementary) school teachers and for anyone concerned with inservice or preservice science teacher education. The overall purpose of the book is to identify ways in which ideas about electricity and simple circuits can be taught effectively in primary school classrooms. This book is based on in-depth…
Descriptors: Analogy, Comprehension, Concept Formation, Concept Teaching
