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Learning Counter-Intuitive Science Concepts: What Have We Learned from Over a Decade of Research?
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Guzzetti, Barbara J. – Reading and Writing Quarterly: Overcoming Learning Difficulties, 2000
Integrates findings from qualitative and quantitative research in conceptual change that investigated text and text-based strategies. Emphasizes findings that have direct implications for instructional research and practice: (1) refutational text is not sufficient to produce conceptual change; (2) discussion of refutational text must be…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Literature Reviews, Misconceptions, Reader Text Relationship
Shared Understandings: Structuring the Writing Experience through Dialogue.
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Englert, Carol Sue; Mariage, Troy V. – Journal of Learning Disabilities, 1991
This article reviews recent projects using text structures and the writing process as frameworks to guide the composition dialogue. Learning-disabled students' attitudes toward writing as a required skill rather than a means of expression are confronted in the emphasis on dialogue. Several blank forms for organizing prewriting thoughts are…
Descriptors: Cohesion (Written Composition), Elementary Secondary Education, Learning Disabilities, Prewriting