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Turkoguz, Suat; Ercan, Izel – Chemistry Education Research and Practice, 2022
This study investigated the effect of visual anthropomorphic stories on students' understanding of the particulate nature of matter and their level of anthropomorphic discourse. This study employed a quasi-experimental research design with pretest and posttest control groups. Science activities supported by visual anthropomorphic stories were…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Scientific Concepts, Concept Formation, Science Activities
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Sendur, G.; Polat, M.; Kazanci, C. – Chemistry Education Research and Practice, 2017
The creative comparisons prospective chemistry teachers make about "chemistry" and the "chemist" may reflect how they perceive these concepts. In this sense, it seems important to determine which creative comparisons prospective teachers make with respect to these and how these can change after the history of chemistry is…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Science Teachers, Chemistry, Scientists
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Kahveci, Ajda – Chemistry Education Research and Practice, 2015
Aims of science education are concerned not only with students' cognition but also with students' affect, an umbrella term for emotions, feelings, moods, and attitudes. Many studies have been conducted on student attitudes toward learning science in general; however, studies concerning attitudes toward chemistry are limited in number. The purpose…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, High School Students, Student Attitudes, Scientific Attitudes
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Çiçek, Ö.; Ilhan, N. – Chemistry Education Research and Practice, 2017
Students are more likely to be successful in topics they are interested in than others. This study aims to develop an Acid-Base Interest Scale (ABIS) and subsequently evaluate the interest of pre-service science teachers in acids-bases according to gender, years at the university, type of high school the pre-service science teachers attended, and…
Descriptors: Student Interests, Science Interests, Chemistry, Science Tests
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Sendur, Gulten; Toprak, Mustafa – Chemistry Education Research and Practice, 2013
This research aims to investigate the influence of conceptual change texts on students' understanding and misconceptions related to the subject of alkenes. For this, nine conceptual change texts were developed by considering students' misconceptions and learning difficulties regarding alkenes. The participants of this study consist of 63 second…
Descriptors: Scientific Concepts, Misconceptions, Concept Formation, Preservice Teachers
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Nakiboglu, Canan – Chemistry Education Research and Practice, 2008
Determining students' knowledge structure is important for assessing what a learner knows about a domain of knowledge. Traditional assessment methods are not always appropriate for exploring students' knowledge structure and changes during the learning period. This study investigates how the existing knowledge structure of the learners interacts…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Student Teachers, Student Evaluation, Prior Learning