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Miguel Reina; Herve´ This; Antonio Reina – Journal of Chemical Education, 2024
Despite the efforts from the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) and from chemistry educators, misconceptions in the classroom and among professionals arise from the inherent complexity of chemical language and the remaining traces of the historical development of chemistry as a science. In order to improve the learning and…
Descriptors: Chemistry, Academic Language, Scientific Concepts, Science Instruction
Júlio J. Conde; Pablo Á. Meira-Cartea – Australian Journal of Environmental Education, 2024
The Kigali Amendment introduced a new family of chemical compounds, which do not contribute to stratospheric ozone depletion but present a high global warming potential, under the watch of the Montreal Protocol in 2016. Earlier this year, a press note from the World Meteorological Organization entitled "Ozone layer recovery is on track,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Scientific Concepts, Chemistry, Pollution
Ginnobili, Santiago; González Galli, Leonardo; Ariza, Yefrin – Science & Education, 2022
We argue that teleological thinking plays a central role in biology and, more specifically, in theory of natural selection, and, therefore, the didactic goal cannot be its unnuanced elimination. In this sense, we will suggest that students' teleological views can be used as the starting point for the construction of knowledge in this area of…
Descriptors: Misconceptions, Scientific Concepts, Student Attitudes, Cognitive Processes
Akila Nallabelli; Heidi L. Lujan; Stephen E. DiCarlo – Advances in Physiology Education, 2024
The movement of air into and out of the lungs is facilitated by changes in pressure within the thoracic cavity relative to atmospheric pressure, as well as the resistance encountered by airways. In this process, the movement of air into and out of the lungs is driven by pressure gradients established by changes in lung volume and intra-alveolar…
Descriptors: Physics, Motion, Misconceptions, Scientific Concepts
Simard, Catherine – Journal of Biological Education, 2023
This article outlines the results from the research on primary and secondary school pupils' conceptualisation of microorganisms. It has been observed from the past few decades that one conceptual model is dominant, in which microorganisms are considered harmful, disease-causing and living in dirty environments. These misconceptions are only likely…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Scientific Concepts, Misconceptions, Microbiology
Viennot, Laurence; Décamp, Nicolas – Contributions from Science Education Research, 2020
Certain explanatory elements or documents can convey unambiguously inaccurate explanations, or they may simply suggest such explanations and encourage a critical passivity towards them. This chapter presents these "risk factors", in particular: the accuracy of the conclusion and the associated "confirmation bias" (two…
Descriptors: Risk, Accuracy, Bias, Logical Thinking
Santos Silva, Guilherme Paulino; Trindade, Neilo Marcos – Science Education International, 2022
This paper presents a perspective of how the radiation and radioactivity themes have been discussed at the high school level in several locations around the world. In this context, scientific journals, academic journals, theses, dissertations, and media materials were analyzed. Recent research has shown that the concern with the discussion about…
Descriptors: High Schools, Radiation, Scientific Concepts, Science Instruction
Kloos, Heidi; Baker, Heather; Waltzer, Talia – Educational Psychology Review, 2019
In the current paper, we develop an approach to early science pedagogy that is based on insights about how complex adaptive systems function. Complexity approaches have an important advantage over traditional information-processing approaches: They anticipate the proverbial 'mind with a mind of its own' without having to postulate exclusively…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Misconceptions, Scientific Concepts, Children
Holme, Thomas A. – Journal of Chemical Education, 2021
Psychologists have studied the question of what happens to naïve or intuitive concepts about science that form before accepted scientific ideas have been taught. Studies find that both the accuracy and time required to decide about the accuracy of carefully crafted statements reveal remnants of intuitive models of science. This is true even after…
Descriptors: Intuition, Scientific Literacy, Misconceptions, Scientific Concepts
Park, Wonyong; Brock, Richard – Science & Education, 2023
The notion of family resemblance has recently emerged as a promising and fruitful approach to characterising the nature of science (NOS) in science education research, offering solutions to some perplexing challenges such as capturing both the domain-general and domain-specific features of science with a single framework. At the same time,…
Descriptors: Scientific Principles, Science Instruction, Teaching Methods, Scientific Concepts
Johnson, Philip – School Science Review, 2020
Earthbound manifestations of gravity in falling objects are distorted by the large mass and size of the Earth. Movement is also affected by air resistance. This article questions whether an approach based on everyday observations is necessarily the best starting point for introducing the idea of Newtonian gravity. Instead, a theoretical approach…
Descriptors: Science Education, Earth Science, Misconceptions, Scientific Concepts
Vlaardingerbroek, Barend – Journal of Biological Education, 2020
Ernst Haeckel (1834-1919) is most recalled in the history of biology for his Recapitulation Theory and the allegedly fudged illustrations of embryos that he presented in support of that case. Less well known is his contribution to abiogenesis theory, which he incorporated into evolutionary theory. In so doing, Haeckel, a vitriolic atheist, was…
Descriptors: Science History, Microbiology, Evolution, Scientific Concepts
Crowther, Gregory J.; Knight, Thomas A. – Advances in Physiology Education, 2023
The past [approximately]15 years have seen increasing interest in defining disciplinary core concepts. Within the field of physiology, Michael, McFarland, Modell, and colleagues have published studies that defined physiology core concepts and have elaborated many of these as detailed conceptual frameworks. With such helpful definitions now in…
Descriptors: Test Format, Physiology, Higher Education, Concept Teaching
Galbraith, John Morrison; Shaik, Sason; Danovich, David; Brai¨da, Benoît; Wu, Wei; Hiberty, Philippe; Cooper, David L.; Karadakov, Peter B.; Dunning, Thom H., Jr. – Journal of Chemical Education, 2021
Introductory chemistry textbooks often present valence bond (VB) theory as useful, but incorrect and inferior to molecular orbital (MO) theory, citing the electronic structure of O[subscript 2] and electron delocalization as evidence. Even texts that initially present the two theories on equal footing use language that biases students toward the…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Chemistry, Introductory Courses, Textbook Content
Watts, Elizabeth – Cultural Studies of Science Education, 2020
This paper examines how Buddhists in America have been able to integrate evolution into their worldview to a much greater extent than other religious groups in the United States. Not only is evolution and science in general in line with the main teachings of Buddhism, but Buddhist teachers in the US have consistently encouraged Buddhists to…
Descriptors: Science Education, Evolution, Buddhism, Religious Factors