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Mi, Shuaishuai; Lu, Shanshan; Bi, Hualin – Journal of Baltic Science Education, 2020
This study aims to reveal the trends and foundations in research on students' conceptual understanding in science education. The literature was selected from three recognized journals in science education. The Structural Topic Model (STM) method was used to categorize articles into ten topics considering information about the semantic cohesion and…
Descriptors: Science Education, Scientific Concepts, Concept Formation, Persuasive Discourse
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Tabor-Morris, A. E.; Froriep, K. A.; Briles, T. M.; McGuire, C. M. – Physics Education, 2009
Physics educators and researchers can be concerned with how students attain cognitive coherence: specifically, how students understand and intra-connect the whole of their knowledge of the "field of physics". Starting instead with the metaphor "city of physics", the implication of applying architectural concepts for the human acquisition of mental…
Descriptors: Urban Planning, Rhetoric, Figurative Language, Learning Strategies