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Dewei Ye; Jiali Qian; Wangyi Xu; Yuyang Lu; Shuli Wang; Longhai Xiao; Lei Bao – Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2024
The galvanic cell is a typical interdisciplinary topic, which is primarily taught in chemistry but its underpinning is closely related to physics. Student learning in galvanic cell has been extensively studied in chemistry education, which has revealed a large number of misconceptions that are difficult to change through traditional instruction. A…
Descriptors: Physics, Science Instruction, Teaching Methods, Cytology
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Ayhan Kursat Erbas; Mehmet Fatih Ocal – International Journal of Mathematical Education in Science and Technology, 2024
The purpose of this study was twofold. First, to explore middle and high school students' intuitively-based (mis)conceptions in probability, particularly availability and representativeness heuristics. Second, to investigate teachers' awareness of these intuitively-based (mis)conceptions and the effectiveness of their instructional practices to…
Descriptors: Misconceptions, Heuristics, Middle School Students, High School Students
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Bulelwa Penelope Stemele; Zaheera Jina Asvat – African Journal of Research in Mathematics, Science and Technology Education, 2024
South African learners' performance in mathematics, both locally and internationally, has raised significant concerns, particularly in the realm of algebra. To address this issue, a mixed-methods study was conducted to explore the effectiveness of using algebra tiles to teach algebraic expressions. The study aimed to investigate algebraic…
Descriptors: Error Patterns, Misconceptions, Algebra, Middle School Students
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Yesh Chogyel – Journal on School Educational Technology, 2024
Misconceptions hinder and challenge the learning of physics and science subjects in general. This study aimed to identify misconceptions in physics topics, namely gravity and force, and to overcome them through timely and appropriate interventions among ninth-grade students at Khuruthang Middle Secondary School in Punakha district, Bhutan. This…
Descriptors: Scientific Concepts, Misconceptions, Physics, Grade 9
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Thomas Schubatzky; Claudia Haagen-Schützenhöfer; Rainer Wackermann; Carina Wöhlke; Sarah Wildbichler – Science Education, 2024
The greenhouse effect is a complex scientific phenomenon that plays a crucial role in understanding climate change. Grasping students' understanding of this phenomenon on the content-specific level but also how students' conceptions are organized is vital for effective climate change education. This study addresses both levels and delves into the…
Descriptors: High School Students, Grade 11, Secondary School Science, Science Instruction
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Nikolaos Zarkadis; George Papageorgiou; Angelos Markos – Science Education International, 2024
The study investigates secondary students' understanding of "orbital" and "electron cloud" concepts in different quantum contexts (for values of the ?principal quantum number n = 1 and n = 2) on the basis of their verbal and pictorial representations, evaluating also their consistency. Participants, which were 192 12th-grade…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Teaching Methods, Scientific Concepts, Concept Formation
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Willem Keppens; Mieke De Cock; Hans Van Winckel; Wim Van Dooren; Jan Sermeus – Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2025
Estimating astronomical scales requires multiple complex mental processes, such as spatial thinking and interpreting large numbers. As such, it is a nontrivial question how these estimates can be most efficiently assessed. There is reason to believe that results from previous studies probing astronomical scale estimates are possibly susceptible to…
Descriptors: Astronomy, Science Instruction, Physics, Comparative Analysis
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Oguzhan Ozcan; Samih Bayrakceken; Ozlem Oktay; Nurtac Canpolat – Science Insights Education Frontiers, 2024
This study aims to investigate the applicability and effectiveness of the peer instruction method on teaching the subject of acids and bases at the 12th-grade level. In addition, it aims to determine the effect of peer instruction on students' attitudes towards chemistry and in-class discussion, and to examine students' opinions regarding peer…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Chemistry, High School Students, Grade 12
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Gürefe, Nejla – REDIMAT - Journal of Research in Mathematics Education, 2022
This study explores how hard of hearing students decided whether the shape was a polygon and which semiotic sources were used when the students engaged in explaining geometrical concepts. It was defined how the students interacted with geometric shapes using semiotic sources and examined how such multimodal interactions with geometric figures…
Descriptors: Geometric Concepts, Hearing Impairments, Semiotics, Nonverbal Communication
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Adjei, Francis; Hanson, Ruby; Sam, Arkoful; Sedegah, Samuel – Science Education International, 2022
This study investigated the use of collaborative instructional approaches on form two science students' performance in redox reactions. The sample for this study consisted of 106 science students from Winneba Senior High School in Ghana. The sample was selected from two intact classes in the school. After a pre-test organized for both classes, the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Cooperative Learning, High School Students, Chemistry
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Achmad Samsudin; Aldi Zulfikar; Duden Saepuzaman; Andi Suhandi; Adam Hadiana Aminudin; Supriyadi Supriyadi; Bayram Costu – Journal of Turkish Science Education, 2024
This study aims to reconstruct Grade 11 students' misconceptions about force through the Conceptual Change Model (CCM) making use of Predict, Discuss, Explain, Observe, Discuss, Explore, Explain (PDEODEE) tasks. This study was conducted using a mixedmethod approach. The participants in this study were 65 students (33 students in the experiment…
Descriptors: Scientific Concepts, Concept Formation, Misconceptions, Foreign Countries
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Hachmi, A.; El Moussaouy, A.; Ouariach, A.; Essaadaoui, R.; Kerkour-El Miad, A.; Mommadi, O.; El Hadi, M. – Physics Education, 2021
In this study, which aims to help grade nine students overcome the misconceptions about electric current, we identified their misconceptions about this concept and then designed and implemented a playground activity as an analogy of electric current. Through the conceptual change texts approach, which we have enhanced with experience, we use this…
Descriptors: Playground Activities, Scientific Concepts, Energy, Physics
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Tholani Tshuma; Eunice Nyamupangedengu – Research in Social Sciences and Technology, 2025
This inquiry sought to investigate the opportunities and potential challenges of engaging in a self-study approach as a strategy for enhancing professional growth during my teaching of the topic of evolutionary genetics to 24 twelfth-grade students. I had, for many years, experienced pedagogical deficits and shortcomings when teaching evolutionary…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Teaching Methods, Faculty Development, Science Teachers
Khandagale, Vidyanand S.; Shinde, Asmita V. – Online Submission, 2021
Chemistry is one of the important branches of science. The subject matter of chemistry consists of numerous complex and abstract concepts. Therefore, sometimes students have flawed understanding of these concepts. These erroneous concepts are known as misconceptions. The purpose of this study was to investigate the misconceptions for Valency and…
Descriptors: Misconceptions, Chemistry, Science Instruction, Scientific Concepts
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Shakeel Mohammad Cassam Atchia; Moshimee Gunowa – Journal of Biological Education, 2025
As some misconceptions remain persistent, comforting and highly resistant to change, it is imperative to use methods and strategies that are centred around students' abilities, interests and needs to address those misconceptions. This study investigates the appropriateness of using 'concept cartoons' to address misconceptions held by forty grade 9…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Secondary School Science, Secondary School Students, Secondary School Teachers
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