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Eder Hernandez; Esmeralda Campos; Pablo Barniol; Genaro Zavala – Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2025
Electricity and magnetism are fundamentally interconnected, as represented by the symmetry in Maxwell's equations. Much of the research on Gauss's and Ampere's laws has focused on their application in calculating electric or magnetic fields. However, there remains a significant gap in the literature in exploring these laws in a broader…
Descriptors: Scientific Concepts, Energy, Magnets, Scientific Principles
Önder Sensoy; Meltem Kocakusak – International Journal of Contemporary Educational Research, 2025
This study aims to determine the alternative conceptions that middle school students may have about the structure of celestial bodies, celestial events and the motions of celestial bodies. Since qualitative and quantitative methods were used in the study, the study method is mixed. Since quantitative data were collected first and qualitative data…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Middle School Students, Astronomy, Misconceptions
Stacey McCaffrey; Saul Shiffman; Mark A. Sembower; Ryan A. Black – Health Education Research, 2025
Completely switching from cigarette smoking to electronic nicotine delivery systems (ENDS) reduces exposure to toxic substances. Yet, many smokers believe that ENDS are at least as harmful as smoking, making them less likely to switch from cigarettes to ENDS. Effectively communicating reduced-exposure information is critical, but such messages…
Descriptors: Smoking, Health Behavior, Information Dissemination, Health Promotion
Laura D'Olimpio – Educational Theory, 2025
The popular trend of manifesting involves supposedly making something happen by imagining it and consciously thinking it will happen in order to will it into existence. In this paper Laura D'Olimpio explains why manifesting is a form of wishful thinking and argues that it is an epistemic vice. She describes how such wishful thinking generally, and…
Descriptors: Theory of Mind, Epistemology, Beliefs, Trend Analysis
Stacy N. McGuire; Victoria J. VanUitert – Early Childhood Education Journal, 2025
Behavior is a form of communication. For many young children, they may engage in certain behaviors to consciously or subconsciously communicate a need to access something, such as a desired adult or peer, sensory stimulation, or a tangible item. Other times, children may engage in a behavior to escape or avoid something, such as a particular…
Descriptors: Student Behavior, Identification, Misconceptions, Young Children
Mahshid Golestaneh; Seyed Mohsen Mousavi – Journal of Turkish Science Education, 2024
This study aimed to develop a two-tier test to identify misconceptions of pre-service teachers about chemical equilibrium. The sample was made up of 135 pre-service chemistry teachers at Farhangian University in Iran (70 female and 65 male) who were spending the final semester of the eighth semester of the teacher training programme. After…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Scientific Concepts, Chemistry, Science Teachers
Jessica Wright; Ellis Greenberg – Sex Education: Sexuality, Society and Learning, 2024
This paper theorises the ways in which non-binary gender is rendered invisible through binary Yes/No sexual consent education. Judith Butler's framework of gender intelligibility is drawn upon to consider the absenting of non-binary youth from consent education. We suggest that the undoing of the hegemonic colonial gender binary also be a project…
Descriptors: LGBTQ People, Congruence (Psychology), Sexuality, Sex Education
Mimi Wellisch – Australasian Journal of Gifted Education, 2024
Giftedness and Dabrowski's Theory of Positive Disintegration (TPD) have been firmly linked since the Columbus Group's 1991 statement on giftedness and asynchrony. The theory's overexcitabilities (OEs) factor has been the main association with giftedness. Although OEs include certain characteristics associated with giftedness, they also include…
Descriptors: Academically Gifted, Student Characteristics, Psychological Characteristics, Psychological Patterns
Antar A. Tichavakunda – Review of Higher Education, 2024
Misinterpretations and caricatures of Critical Race Theory (CRT) abound in popular media and in higher education scholarship. Given the confusion surrounding what CRT is and is not, I write this conceptual essay as an invitation to engage seriously with CRT's legal foundations. I offer four guideposts to aid scholars in engaging the legal roots of…
Descriptors: Critical Race Theory, Scholarship, Higher Education, Legal Problems
Jena McDaniel; Hannah Krimm; C Melanie Schuele – Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education, 2024
This article reports on speech-language pathologists' (SLPs') knowledge related to myths about spoken language learning of children who are deaf and hard of hearing (DHH). The broader study was designed as a step toward narrowing the research-practice gap and providing effective, evidence-based language services to children. In the broader study,…
Descriptors: Speech Language Pathology, Allied Health Personnel, Misconceptions, Deafness
Ryan Joseph Rogers – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Undergraduate students' understanding of function continuity has not been explored broadly in previous research. The relevant findings in the literature are predominantly concerned with calculus students' understanding and misconceptions of continuity. Many of these misunderstandings are tied to the relationships which continuity has with limits…
Descriptors: Introductory Courses, Mathematics Instruction, Undergraduate Students, Undergraduate Study
Autry, Kevin S.; Duarte, Shea E. – Applied Cognitive Psychology, 2021
Corrections are not always effective at reducing belief in misinformation. Negated corrections, which state a piece of information is not true, may only be effective at inhibiting information an observer has already encountered. We compared the effectiveness of negated corrections and replacements while manipulating initial exposure to a target…
Descriptors: Beliefs, Misconceptions, Error Correction, Cognitive Processes
Bojesen, Emile – Studies in Philosophy and Education, 2021
Through readings of Jacques Derrida's "Of Grammatology" and 'The Age of Hegel', attention is given to two of the problematic types of relationships that philosophy can have with education (exemplified through Derrida's readings of Jean-Jacques Rousseau and G.W.F. Hegel). These engagements, alongside a reading of 'The Antinomies of the…
Descriptors: Educational Philosophy, Educational Theories, Misconceptions, Criticism
Girit Yildiz, Dilek; Osmanoglu, Aslihan; Gundogdu Alayli, Funda – Journal of Mathematics Teacher Education, 2023
This qualitative study examined how prospective mathematics teachers attend to, interpret, and respond to student misconceptions through providing them a video-case-based professional development environment. A sample of 30 prospective teachers attending an elective course was asked to watch video cases about student misconceptions related to the…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Mathematics Teachers, Professional Development, Video Technology
Frenken, Marius; Imhoff, Roland – Applied Cognitive Psychology, 2023
Conspiracy theories express mistrust in common explanations and epistemic authorities. Independent of concrete content, the extent of endorsing conspiracy theories has also shown associations with interpersonal mistrust. Arguing from an evolutionary and error-management perspective, this increased interpersonal mistrust could either represent an…
Descriptors: Misconceptions, Beliefs, Theories, Trust (Psychology)