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Costu, Bayram; Ayas, Alipasa; Niaz, Mansoor – Chemistry Education Research and Practice, 2010
We constructed the PDEODE (Predict-Discuss-Explain-Observe-Discuss-Explain) teaching strategy, a variant of the classical POE (Predict-Observe-Explain) activity, to promote conceptual change, and investigated its effectiveness on student understanding of the evaporation concept. The sample consisted of 52 first year students in a primary science…
Descriptors: Scientific Concepts, Concept Formation, College Freshmen, Chemistry
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Niaz, Mansoor; Costu, Bayram – Chemistry Education Research and Practice, 2009
Research in science education has recognized the importance of teaching atomic structure within a history and philosophy of science perspective. The objective of this study is to evaluate general chemistry textbooks published in Turkey based on the eight criteria developed in previous research. Criteria used referred to the atomic models of…
Descriptors: Textbooks, Nuclear Physics, Chemistry, Foreign Countries