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Download full textOzkan 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
Direct linkAysegül Derman; Figen Gunes; Ozcan Gulacar; Ingo Eilks – Chemistry Education Research and Practice, 2024
This study aims to determine the cognitive structures of students at different educational levels (8th grade and 12th grade) related to acid-base chemistry. The research was designed as a case study and structured in two stages. The first stage analyzed concepts related to acid-base chemistry and their direction and strength in students' knowledge…
Descriptors: Chemistry, Science Instruction, Cognitive Structures, Grade 8
Karaman, Burcu; Karakus, Ufuk – Participatory Educational Research, 2022
The aim of this study is to examine the cognitive structures of the secondary school students towards the concept of health. The study was carried out using the descriptive survey model, which is a research approach that intends to describe a past or present situation as it is. The study group of the research was determined by maximum diversity…
Descriptors: Secondary School Students, Cognitive Structures, Health, Concept Formation
Zwanch, Karen – North American Chapter of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education, 2019
The number sequences describe a hierarchy of students' concepts of number. This research uses two defining cognitive structures of the number sequences--units coordination and the splitting operation--to model middle-grades students' abilities to write linear equations representing the multiplicative relationship between two unknowns. Results…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Mathematics Instruction, Algebra, Thinking Skills
Podaeva, Natalia Georgievna; Agafonov, Pavel Alexandrovich – Journal of Educational Psychology - Propositos y Representaciones, 2020
In the context of the sociocultural approach, the authors studied the problem of the development of the students' conceptual mental structures in the process of geometry teaching. An educational activity for the development of a generalized ability to solve geometry construction problems in electronic educational environment served as a…
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, Elective Courses, Electronic Learning, Courseware
Demirbas, Cagri Ozturk – Journal of Education and Training Studies, 2017
The objective of this study is to determining the change in secondary school students' cognitive structure related to the concepts of environmental problems. There were 21th grades students of two middle schools in Kirsehir. In this research, the students participated in outdoor activities on environmental education programmes during 5 weekends…
Descriptors: Pretests Posttests, Environmental Education, Cognitive Structures, Foreign Countries
Ceylan, Özge; Yigit, Elif Atabek – Science Education International, 2018
In this study, the use of concept cartoons in a particle structure of matter unit was investigated using the flow map of 7th-grade students' academic achievement. The development of their cognitive structures and thoughts about concept cartoons was analyzed. 27 experimental and 27 control group students who were studying in the 7th grade…
Descriptors: Cartoons, Teaching Methods, Scientific Concepts, Concept Formation
Armagan, Fulya Öner – European Journal of Physics Education, 2015
The aim of this study is to examine the change in the cognitive structures of elementary school students in respect to the concept of science through word association test in a constructivist approach based project. The study was conducted with 50 students attending to 6th and 7th grades. Students were applied a 90-minute activity in scope of the…
Descriptors: Cognitive Structures, Elementary School Students, Scientific Concepts, Constructivism (Learning)
Öztürk, Ayse; Doganay, Ahmet – Educational Sciences: Theory and Practice, 2013
This study investigated primary school 5th and 8th graders' understanding and mental models related to the shape of the world and gravity, and how these models reflected the fact and what kind of a change there is from 5th to 8th graders. This research is based on a cross-sectional design. The study was conducted in a low socioeconomic level…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Grade 5, Grade 8, Scientific Concepts
Sherin, Bruce L.; Krakowski, Moshe; Lee, Victor R. – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 2012
This article is concerned with "commonsense science knowledge", the informally gained knowledge of the natural world that students possess prior to formal instruction in a scientific discipline. Although commonsense science has been the focus of substantial study for more than two decades, there are still profound disagreements about its nature…
Descriptors: Cognitive Structures, Scientific Concepts, Concept Formation, Misconceptions
Judson, Eugene – International Journal of Science Education, 2011
This study examined the mental models of the desert environment held by fourth- and seventh-grade students in the USA and whether those mental models could be affected by: (1) classroom field trips to a desert riparian preserve, and (2) interaction with family members at the same preserve. Results generally indicated that students in this study…
Descriptors: Field Trips, Grade 4, Grade 7, Cognitive Structures
Ozdemir, Gokhan; Clark, Douglas – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 2009
This study investigates Turkish students' knowledge structure coherence in physics. In particular, this study investigates the conflicting findings reported in Ioannides and Vosniadou's [Ioannides and Vosniadou [2002] "Cognitive Science Quarterly," 2, 5-61] and diSessa, Gillespie, and Esterly's [diSessa et al. [2004] "Cognitive…
Descriptors: Concept Mapping, Rhetoric, Cognitive Structures, Foreign Countries
