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Relationship between Epistemological Beliefs and Conceptual Change Learning.
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Qian, Gaoyin; Alvermann, Donna E. – Reading and Writing Quarterly: Overcoming Learning Difficulties, 2000
Focuses on how students' epistemological beliefs are related to conceptual change learning in science. Addresses: taking students' epistemological beliefs into account; findings of secondary school students' epistemological beliefs about science; and instructional strategies to promote students' mature epistemological beliefs. Focuses specifically…
Descriptors: Concept Formation, Epistemology, Literature Reviews, Misconceptions
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