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Peer reviewedBoyes, Edward; Stanisstreet, Martin – Research in Science and Technological Education, 1997
Aims to quantify the models that 13- and 14 year-old students hold about the causes of the greenhouse effect and ozone layer depletion. Assesses the prevalence of those ideas that link the two phenomena. Twice as many students think that holes in the ozone layer cause the greenhouse effect than think the greenhouse effect causes ozone depletion.…
Descriptors: Attitudes, Cognitive Structures, Concept Formation, Elementary Secondary Education
