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Pavel Doulík; Jirí Škoda; Martin Bílek; Zuzana Procházková – Journal of Baltic Science Education, 2024
Contemporary secondary science education is characterised by a greater inclination towards the constructivist paradigm of education and the development of inquiry-oriented teaching. The basic principle of this paradigm is the dynamic modification of preconceptions towards the desired level given by the school curriculum. This places particular…
Descriptors: Secondary School Students, Early Adolescents, Scientific Concepts, Concept Formation
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Katie Gormley; Sally Birdsall; Bev France – Journal of Biological Education, 2024
The importance of genetic diversity, especially within small populations of endangered species, is becoming increasingly apparent. Genetic engineering techniques that could potentially enhance diversity are now being developed. However, the use of such techniques would require social licence and yet within the general population there is limited…
Descriptors: Science Education, Biology, Genetics, Animals
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Emre Savas; Aysel Kocakulah – Science Insights Education Frontiers, 2025
This study aims to investigate the effect of the teaching model developed for hot conceptual change on middle school 7th-grade students' understanding of the Nature of Science (NOS) aspects. In this qualitative and exploratory study, activities were carried out with 24 students of two classes in a village school in the South Marmara region using a…
Descriptors: Scientific Principles, Scientific Concepts, Concept Formation, Grade 7
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Tirosh, Dina; Tsamir, Pessia – International Journal of Science and Mathematics Education, 2022
In this article, we describe a case study that was conducted within a study aiming to diagnose grade 5 students' concept images of parallelograms. The theoretical framework that we adopted for this study was that of concept definition--concept image as reported by Tall and Vinner ("Educational Studies in Mathematics" 12:151-169, 1981), a…
Descriptors: Grade 5, Concept Formation, Geometric Concepts, Definitions
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Yuan, Yuan; Chen, Kuolong – International Journal of Science and Mathematics Education, 2023
This study used fraction number line estimation tasks to evaluate students' developmental patterns, and the relationship of such tasks with whole number bias was explored. In total, 189 fourth-grade students in a northern Taiwan elementary school were followed over 2 years. The results demonstrated that the students' fraction learning development…
Descriptors: Fractions, Numbers, Computation, Grade 4
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Iwan A. J. Sianturi; Zaleha Ismail; Der-Ching Yang – Mathematics Education Research Journal, 2024
This study examines the conceptual understanding of numbers and operations among 372 fifth-grade students, based on their responses to an online three-tier test designed to assess their number sense, declarative knowledge, explanatory knowledge, and confidence. The results showed that most students had low performance and low number sense, with…
Descriptors: Numbers, Arithmetic, Mathematical Concepts, Concept Formation
Sun, Jiqing; Gu, Yifan – Mathematics Education Research Group of Australasia, 2023
Fostering students' bidirectional conception of the equal sign (viewing the equal sign as indicating an equivalence of two sides rather than a 'show result' symbol) is challenging, and students' misconception of the equal sign is persistent. Some studies mention that in China, the pedagogical approach to introducing the equal sign supports…
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, Teaching Methods, Symbols (Mathematics), Misconceptions
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Savas Bastürk; Mehtap Tastepe; Pinar Uzun – Shanlax International Journal of Education, 2023
Misconception/student difficulty is one of the student characteristics that should be known by teachers. Teachers should have effective knowledge and strategies to overcome these misconceptions and difficulties. In this sense, microteaching practices have an important place in the context of pre-service teachers' ability to increase their…
Descriptors: Microteaching, Mathematics Instruction, Preservice Teachers, Elementary School Teachers
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Ozkan Akman; Kubra Durgun – International Society for Technology, Education, and Science, 2023
Concepts are where the foundation of scientific knowledge and thought structures are laid. Thanks to concepts, distinctions or generalisations about an event or an entity are formed and thought structures are formed in our minds. In this study, it was aimed to determine the associations in the minds of secondary school 6th grade students about the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Secondary School Students, Grade 6, Social Studies
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Herawati; Herman, Tatang; Suryadi, Didi; Prabawanto, Sufyani – Mathematics Teaching Research Journal, 2022
This study aims to determine students' difficulties in understanding the concept of polygons in elementary schools. This research is qualitative research with a case study method. The subjects of this study were 30 grade 5 elementary school students from two different schools in the city of Bandung. The instruments used are test and non-test. The…
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, Elementary School Students, Grade 5, Concept Formation
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Boublil, Shachar; Blair, David; Treagust, David F. – Teaching Science, 2023
The demand for improving student interest in science has increased efforts toward teaching Einstein's theory of general relativity in schools. Research has already shown that teaching Einsteinian gravity at the secondary level is feasible, however, appropriate resources must be readily available for science teachers to make Einsteinian gravity…
Descriptors: Science Experiments, Scientific Concepts, Physics, Middle School Students
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Teuscher, Dawn; Dingman, Shannon; Olson, Travis A.; Kasmer, Lisa A. – Mathematics Teacher: Learning and Teaching PK-12, 2021
Grade 8 students were given a task that had pairs of shapes that had been transformed (i.e., preimages and images). Students were to identify which of the three rigid transformations--reflections, rotations, or translations--were used to map the preimage to the image. Students were also asked to give a justification for their choice of…
Descriptors: Grade 8, Middle School Students, Geometry, Geometric Concepts
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Senyigit, Çigdem – International Online Journal of Primary Education, 2021
The aim of this research is to investigate the effect of problem-based learning on misconceptions and conceptual understanding regarding simple electric circuits. Participants are 54 pre-service primary school teachers enrolled on the "Basic Science in Elementary School" course at a state university. The research employs a nonequivalent…
Descriptors: Problem Based Learning, Preservice Teachers, Elementary School Teachers, Concept Formation
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Handayani, Rif'ati Dina; Triyanto – Journal of Geoscience Education, 2022
Education must provide substantive knowledge, skills, attitudes, and behaviors toward environmental education. This study aims to identify seventh-grade students' conceptions regarding climate change, global warming, and the greenhouse effect. The research was conducted at four local secondary schools in the Special Region of Yogyakarta,…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Grade 7, Foreign Countries, Climate
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Achmad Samsudin; Aldi Zulfikar; Duden Saepuzaman; Andi Suhandi; Adam Hadiana Aminudin; Supriyadi Supriyadi; Bayram Costu – Journal of Turkish Science Education, 2024
This study aims to reconstruct Grade 11 students' misconceptions about force through the Conceptual Change Model (CCM) making use of Predict, Discuss, Explain, Observe, Discuss, Explore, Explain (PDEODEE) tasks. This study was conducted using a mixedmethod approach. The participants in this study were 65 students (33 students in the experiment…
Descriptors: Scientific Concepts, Concept Formation, Misconceptions, Foreign Countries
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