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Direct linkRobert W. Danielson; Benjamin C. Heddy; Onur Ramazan; Gan Jin; Kanvarbir S. Gill; Danielle N. Berry – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 2025
Misinformation has been extensively studied as both maliciously intended propaganda and accidentally experienced incorrect assumptions. We contend that "conceptual contamination" is the process by which the learning of incorrect information interferes, pollutes, or otherwise disrupts the learning of correct information. This is similar…
Descriptors: Misinformation, Propaganda, Deception, Misconceptions
Ahopelto, Ilona; Mikkila-Erdmann, Mirjamaija; Anto, Erkki; Penttinen, Marjaana – Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research, 2011
The purpose of this study was to examine conceptual change among future elementary school teachers while studying a scientific text concerning photosynthesis. Students' learning goals in relation to their learning outcomes were also examined. The participants were future elementary school teachers. The design consisted of pre- and post-tests. The…
Descriptors: Student Teachers, Student Attitudes, Botany, Elementary School Teachers
Peer reviewedGuzzetti, 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
