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Stern, Florian; Kampourakis, Kostas; Delaval, Marine; Müller, Andreas – International Journal of Science Education, 2020
In this article, we describe the main phases in the development and validation of a questionnaire measuring secondary students' teleology and essentialism conceptions in the context of genetics. The validation process involved 714 Swiss and French secondary school students from 14 different schools. The process included interviews, several pilot…
Descriptors: Test Construction, Questionnaires, Secondary School Students, Scientific Concepts
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Nabbout-Cheiban, Marie – International Journal of Research in Undergraduate Mathematics Education, 2017
In this article we study the conceptions of an American and a French group of undergraduate pre-service teachers regarding the concept of independent events. Specifically, we study the role that intuition plays in their answers, ascertain the presence of probabilistic biases, and compare the findings with previous results collected on a different…
Descriptors: Intuition, Misconceptions, Case Studies, Preservice Teachers