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Stolpe, Karin; Bjorklund, Lars – International Journal of Science Education, 2012
This study aims to investigate two expert ecology teachers' ability to attend to essential details in a complex environment during a field excursion, as well as how they teach this ability to their students. In applying a cognitive dual-memory system model for learning, we also suggest a rationale for their behaviour. The model implies two…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Observation, Holistic Approach, Familiarity
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Adbo, Karina; Taber, Keith S. – International Journal of Science Education, 2009
The results presented here derive from a longitudinal study of Swedish upper secondary science students' (16-19 years of age) developing understanding of key chemical concepts. The informants were 18 students from two different schools. The aim of the present study was to investigate the mental models of matter at the particulate level that…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Secondary School Science, Chemistry, High School Students