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Métioui, Abdeljalil; MacWillie, Mireille Baulu – Universal Journal of Educational Research, 2015
A qualitative research approach was chosen to analyse the conceptions of pupils attending elementary school from Canada (N = 135), France (N = 30) and Morocco (N = 92) between 10 and 12 years of age. Their conceptions were identified while being mobilised on energy transformations during the working of a simple electric circuit made of a battery,…
Descriptors: Qualitative Research, Teacher Education, Science Education, Foreign Countries
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Gaillard, Audrey; Urdapilleta, Isabel; Houix, Olivier; Manetta, Celine – Psicologica: International Journal of Methodology and Experimental Psychology, 2011
This study examined the within-subject stability of 150 participants who performed both a sorting task and a property-generation task over multiple sessions, focusing on three concrete concept categories (food, animals and bathroom products). We hypothesized that (1) the within-subject stability would be higher in the sorting task than in the…
Descriptors: Classification, Hypothesis Testing, Concept Formation, Experimental Psychology