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T. G. K. Bryce; E. J. Blown – British Educational Research Journal, 2025
This paper provides a critical and detailed study of what researchers in the fields of contemporary cognition and neuroscience have revealed about the blurred boundary between perception and cognition. We set out the arguments with a view to what researchers and teachers should now consider regarding the subtleties of their interrelationship in…
Descriptors: Perception, Cognitive Processes, Science Education, Children
Mark A. J. Parker; Holly Hedgeland; Nicholas St. J. Braithwaite; Sally E. Jordan – European Journal of Science and Mathematics Education, 2024
The study outlines the early-stage development of a free-response General Relativity Concept Inventory (GRCI), an educational instrument designed to test for conceptual understanding of General Relativity. Data were collected for the study by having 26 participants from General Relativity courses work through the questions on the GRCI. Interviews…
Descriptors: Scientific Concepts, Physics, Science Tests, Thinking Skills
Soo-min Lim; Hyunju Chun; Hyonyong Lee; Youngshin Kim – Journal of Baltic Science Education, 2024
An important educational goal is enabling students to learn scientific concepts. The scientific concepts learned in class are developed within students' cognitive structures. Despite the successful application of Semantic Network Analysis (SNA) to study these cognitive structures, there has been limited examination of students' concept networks…
Descriptors: Student Characteristics, Cognitive Processes, Thinking Skills, Student Behavior
Potvin, Patrice – Studies in Science Education, 2023
This article presents a critical and systematic review of the science education research literature that explores the response of learners to contradicting information (anomalous data). The review is framed in the cognitive conflict process model (CCPM) and provides an analysis of (1) the types and frequency of possible responses, (2) the…
Descriptors: Science Education, Science Process Skills, Cognitive Processes, Difficulty Level
Shi, Guanxue; Lu, Shanshan; Bi, Hualin – Journal of Baltic Science Education, 2023
Explaining natural phenomena by determining causal relationships is conducive to understanding scientific concepts. In science education, numerous studies examine students' causal reasoning. Given the importance of core ideas for students' understanding of how and why a phenomenon occurs, the study focused on the relationship between students'…
Descriptors: Secondary School Students, Thinking Skills, Cognitive Processes, Concept Formation
Goldwater, Micah B.; Hilton, Courtney; Davis, Tyler H. – Mind, Brain, and Education, 2022
There is a disconnect between neuroscience research on concept learning and representation (focusing on categories of concrete objects), and concept learning challenges in science education (which concern systems of causal relationships among objects and events). Bridging this gap will both inform theories of science learning and expand our…
Descriptors: Science Education, Class Activities, Cognitive Processes, Course Content
Yi Ding; Guangtian Zhu; Qiuxin Bian; Lei Bao – Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2024
The purpose of this study is to examine how students may hold coexisting and competing conceptual ideas and how students' uses of such ideas may evolve during the process of conceptual change by combining two complementary methods including model analysis and the conceptual framework model of knowledge integration. Conceptual change is fundamental…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Attitude Change, Concept Formation, Science Education
Orduña Picón, Raúl; Sevian, Hannah; Mortimer, Eduardo F. – Science & Education, 2020
Teachers face challenges when building the concept of substance with students because tensions of meanings emerge from students' daily life and canonical ideas developed in classrooms. A powerful tool to address learning, pedagogical, and research challenges is the conceptual profile theory. According to this theory, people employ various ways of…
Descriptors: Chemistry, Science Education, Scientific Concepts, Science Activities
Mambrey, Sophia; Timm, Justin; Landskron, Jana Julia; Schmiemann, Philipp – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 2020
Present and future social and ecological challenges are complex both to understand and to attempt to solve. To comprehend the complex systems underlying these issues, students need systems thinking skills. However, in science education, a uniform delineation of systems thinking across contexts has yet to be established. While there seems to be…
Descriptors: Science Education, Grade 5, Grade 6, Systems Approach
Cuzzolino, Megan Powell – Electronic Journal for Research in Science & Mathematics Education, 2021
There is an increasingly rich body of developmental research on children's understanding of science and religion as ways of knowing. In this manuscript, I put this scholarship in conversation with applied research on science education and consider the potential implications for exposing children to instruction that addresses the relationship…
Descriptors: Scientific Principles, Religion, Science Education, Cultural Influences
Kokkonen, Tommi – Science & Education, 2017
Model-based learning (MBL) has an established position within science education. It has been found to enhance conceptual understanding and provide a way for engaging students in authentic scientific activity. Despite ample research, few studies have examined the cognitive processes regarding learning scientific concepts within MBL. On the other…
Descriptors: Models, Science Education, Scientific Concepts, Cognitive Processes
Thacker, Ian; Sinatra, Gale M. – Education Sciences, 2019
The purpose of this design based research study was to better understand and build from students' perceptual experiences of visual representations of the greenhouse effect. Twenty undergraduate students were interviewed as they engaged with an online visualization for the learning of the greenhouse effect. We found that, even though all students…
Descriptors: Visualization, Climate, Computer Simulation, Environmental Education
Ntourou, Vassiliki; Kalogiannakis, Michail; Psycharis, Sarantos – EURASIA Journal of Mathematics, Science and Technology Education, 2021
This article presents a quasi-experiment which, with the use of Arduino and Scratch for Arduino (S4A), attempts to study their effect on self-efficacy and motivation towards Science Education, Computational Thinking (CT) and the views of 5th Grade students about concepts of electricity. It was conducted on the 5th Grade of a Primary School in…
Descriptors: Science Education, Grade 5, Elementary School Students, Student Motivation
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
Gouvea, Julia S.; Simon, Matt R. – CBE - Life Sciences Education, 2018
In biology education research, it has been common to model cognition in terms of relatively stable knowledge structures (e.g., mental models, alternative frameworks, deeply held misconceptions). For example, John D. Coley and Kimberley D. Tanner recently proposed that many student difficulties in biology stem from underlying cognitive frameworks…
Descriptors: Biology, Science Education, Educational Research, Misconceptions