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Permatasari, Margaretha Bhrizda; Rahayu, Sri; Dasna, I Wayan – Journal of Science Learning, 2022
The abstractness of the chemistry concept can be understood easily through chemistry learning using multiple representations. This article used the Systematic Literature Review (SLR) method to review eleven articles published from 2012 to 2021 and focused on chemistry learning using various representations. The articles are systematically obtained…
Descriptors: Science Education, Science Instruction, Teaching Methods, Chemistry
Gok Colak, Feride; Tugluk, Mehmet Nur – Online Submission, 2017
This study aimed to investigate the cognitive structures of prospective preschool teachers and to identify their misconceptions about the concepts of circle, disk and annulus. In the study, the Word Association Test was used as the data collection instrument. The study was conducted in the fall semester of the 2014-2015 academic year with the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preservice Teachers, Misconceptions, Association Measures
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Mariotti, Maria Alessandra – L'Insegnamento della Matematica e delle Scienze Integrate, 1992
Discusses geometrical reasoning in the framework of the theory of Figural Concepts to highlight the interaction between the figural and conceptual components of geometrical concepts. Examples of students' difficulties and errors in geometrical reasoning are interpreted according to the internal tension that appears in figural concepts resulting…
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Structures, Elementary Secondary Education
Happs, John C.; Mansfield, Helen – 1989
Secondary school geometry students have been found to have misconceptions concerning parallel lines. Correctional teaching programs did not seem effective in changing these misconceptions. This research describes an attempt to use teaching strategies which take into account current learning theory and which encourages students to be actively…
Descriptors: Cognitive Structures, Concept Formation, Curriculum Development, Foreign Countries
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Mansfield, Helen M.; Happs, John C. – School Science and Mathematics, 1992
Reports misconceptions identified in students with respect to the topic of parallel lines and the teaching strategies found to be useful in challenging those misconceptions. (11 references) (MDH)
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes, Cognitive Structures, Concept Formation