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Önder Sensoy; Meltem Kocakusak – International Journal of Contemporary Educational Research, 2025
This study aims to determine the alternative conceptions that middle school students may have about the structure of celestial bodies, celestial events and the motions of celestial bodies. Since qualitative and quantitative methods were used in the study, the study method is mixed. Since quantitative data were collected first and qualitative data…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Middle School Students, Astronomy, Misconceptions
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Blown, Eric J.; Bryce, Tom G. K. – Research in Science Education, 2022
This paper provides a historical review of the interview research that has been used by science educators to investigate children's basic astronomy knowledge. A wide range of strategies have been developed over the last 120 years or so as successive teams of researchers have endeavoured to overcome the methodological difficulties that have arisen.…
Descriptors: Interviews, Research Methodology, Science Education, Science Teachers