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Learning Counter-Intuitive Science Concepts: What Have We Learned from Over a Decade of Research?
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Guzzetti, Barbara J. – Reading and Writing Quarterly: Overcoming Learning Difficulties, 2000
Integrates findings from qualitative and quantitative research in conceptual change that investigated text and text-based strategies. Emphasizes findings that have direct implications for instructional research and practice: (1) refutational text is not sufficient to produce conceptual change; (2) discussion of refutational text must be…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Literature Reviews, Misconceptions, Reader Text Relationship
Readers, Texts and Conceptual Change Learning.
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Dole, Janice A. – Reading and Writing Quarterly: Overcoming Learning Difficulties, 2000
Examines reader and text variables related to conceptual change learning from science textbooks. Shows it is difficult to change readers' prior knowledge by reading texts that are inconsistent with that knowledge, but refutation text was shown to impact students' prior knowledge when that knowledge contained naive scientific conceptions. Addresses…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Misconceptions, Prior Learning, Reader Text Relationship