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Relationship between Epistemological Beliefs and Conceptual Change Learning.
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Qian, Gaoyin; Alvermann, Donna E. – Reading and Writing Quarterly: Overcoming Learning Difficulties, 2000
Focuses on how students' epistemological beliefs are related to conceptual change learning in science. Addresses: taking students' epistemological beliefs into account; findings of secondary school students' epistemological beliefs about science; and instructional strategies to promote students' mature epistemological beliefs. Focuses specifically…
Descriptors: Concept Formation, Epistemology, Literature Reviews, Misconceptions
Conceptual Change Instruction: A Social Constructivist Perspective.
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Maria, Katherine – Reading and Writing Quarterly: Overcoming Learning Difficulties, 2000
Demonstrates how social constructivism has affected conceptual change research, and draws implications for reading and writing instruction from conceptual change research using social constructivism as a theoretical framework. Discuss why conceptual change researchers turned to social constructivism as a theoretical framework for their research.…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Concept Formation, Elementary Secondary Education, Literature Reviews