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Seroussi, Dominique-Esther; Rothschild, Nathan; Kurzbaum, Eyal; Yaffe, Yosi; Hemo, Tahel – International Education Studies, 2019
A sample of eighty Israeli in-service teachers filled out a questionnaire assessing their beliefs about the existence and the anthropogenic origin of climate change, their knowledge about the causes and consequences of climate change and the actions which can be taken to remediate it, as well as their level of concern about it and their readiness…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teacher Attitudes, Knowledge Level, Beliefs
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Volfson, Alexander; Eshach, Haim; Ben-Abu, Yuval – Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2018
The present study describes the development and field testing of a simple apparatus-based diagnostic instrument (SABDI) that examines undergraduate students' understanding of the underlying physics principles that explain how simple acoustic apparatuses work. SABDI comprises 13 items. Based on previous research studies and the history of science,…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Knowledge Level, Acoustics, Physics
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Galili, Igal; Hazan, Amnon – International Journal of Science Education, 2000
Explores high school students' and preservice teachers' knowledge of light, vision, and related topics before and after commonly practiced instruction. Suggests a hierarchical structure to represent the collective conceptual knowledge of students and teachers in terms of facets and schemes of knowledge. Makes suggestions for designing instruction…
Descriptors: Cognitive Structures, Concept Formation, Foreign Countries, High Schools