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Gadgil, Soniya; Nokes-Malach, Timothy J.; Chi, Michelene T. H. – Learning and Instruction, 2012
Prior research on conceptual change has identified multiple kinds of misconceptions at different levels of representational complexity including false beliefs, flawed mental models, and incorrect ontological categories. We hypothesized that conceptual change of a mental model requires change in the "system of relations" between the features of the…
Descriptors: Cognitive Structures, Concept Formation, Instruction, Misconceptions

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