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Chang, Hsin-Yi; Linn, Marcia C. – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 2013
Powerful online visualizations can make unobservable scientific phenomena visible and improve student understanding. Instead, they often confuse or mislead students. To clarify the impact of molecular visualizations for middle school students we explored three design variations implemented in a Web-based Inquiry Science Environment (WISE) unit on…
Descriptors: Scaffolding (Teaching Technique), Science Education, Visualization, Middle School Students
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Ravanis, Konstantinos; Pantidos, Panagiotis; Vitoratos, Evangelos – Acta Didactica Napocensia, 2009
Children's mental representations about physical concepts and phenomena play a vital role in the learning process. This is confirmed by the data derived from relevant researches which demonstrate that the students formulate incompatible ideas compared with the scientific ones. In this research we investigate the representations of 14-15 years old…
Descriptors: Scientific Concepts, Learning Processes, Adolescents, Magnets