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Park, Jongwon – International Journal of Science Education, 2006
It has recently been determined that generating an explanatory hypothesis to explain a discrepant event is important for students' conceptual change. The purpose of this study is to investigate how students' generate new explanatory hypotheses. To achieve this goal, questions are used to identify students prior ideas related to electromagnetic…
Descriptors: College Students, Thinking Skills, Scientific Concepts, Prior Learning