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Download full textTürkkan, Ercan – Journal of Education and Training Studies, 2017
The aim of this study is to investigate the cognitive structures of physics teacher candidates about "electric field." Phenomenographic research method, one of the qualitative research patterns, was used in the study. The data of the study was collected from 91 physics teacher candidates who had taken General Physics II course at…
Descriptors: Physics, Science Teachers, Teacher Education, Preservice Teachers
Kurnaz, Mehmet Altan; Eksi, Cigdem – Educational Sciences: Theory and Practice, 2015
Students often have difficulties understanding abstract physics concepts, such as solid friction. This study examines high school students' mental models of solid friction through a case study of 215 high school students in the ninth through twelfth grades. An achievement test with three open-ended questions was created, with questions limited to…
Descriptors: Physics, Science Instruction, Secondary School Science, High School Students
Kurt, Hakan; Ekici, Gülay; Aktas, Murat; Aksu, Özlem – International Education Studies, 2013
The aim of the current study is to investigate student biology teachers' cognitive structures related to "diffusion" through the free word-association test and the drawing-writing technique. As the research design of the study, the qualitative research method was applied. The data were collected from 44 student biology teachers. The free…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preservice Teachers, Biology, Cognitive Structures
Timur, Serkan – Educational Sciences: Theory and Practice, 2012
The purpose of this study is to identify the cognitive structures of prospective preschool teachers concerning the concepts included in the subject "force and motion". The study was conducted on a total of 56 prospective teachers who studied Preschool Teaching at Canakkale Onsekiz Mart University. The Word Association Test (WAT) was…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Preschool Teachers, Cognitive Structures, Scientific Concepts
Direct linkDidis, Nilüfer; Eryilmaz, Ali; Erkoç, Sakir – Physical Review Special Topics - Physics Education Research, 2014
This paper is the first part of a multiphase study examining students' mental models about the quantization of physical observables--light, energy, and angular momentum. Thirty-one second-year physics and physics education college students who were taking a modern physics course participated in the study. The qualitative analysis of data revealed…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Cognitive Structures, Models, Visualization
Saglam, Murat – Educational Research and Reviews, 2010
This study aimed to investigate the models that co-existed in students' cognitive structure to explain the interactions between electric charges and uniform magnetic fields. The sample consisted of 129 first-year civil engineering, geology and geophysics students from a large state university in western Turkey. The students answered five…
Descriptors: Cues, Physics, Geophysics, Geology
Clark, Douglas B.; D'Angelo, Cynthia M.; Schleigh, Sharon P. – Journal of the Learning Sciences, 2011
This study investigates the ongoing debate in the conceptual change literature between unitary and elemental perspectives on students' knowledge structure coherence. More specifically, the current study explores two potential explanations for the conflicting results reported by Ioannides and Vosniadou (2002)and diSessa, Gillespie, and Esterly…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Cognitive Structures, Physics, Coding
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
Ogan-Bekiroglu, Feral – International Journal of Science Education, 2007
The purpose of this study was twofold. First, it was aimed to identify Turkish pre-service physics teachers' knowledge and understanding of the Moon, Moon phases, and other lunar phenomena. Second, the effects of model-based teaching on pre-service teachers' conceptions were examined. Conceptions were proposed as mental models in this study. Four…
Descriptors: Preservice Teacher Education, Physics, Misconceptions, Astronomy
