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Ozkan Akman; Kubra Durgun – International Society for Technology, Education, and Science, 2023
Concepts are where the foundation of scientific knowledge and thought structures are laid. Thanks to concepts, distinctions or generalisations about an event or an entity are formed and thought structures are formed in our minds. In this study, it was aimed to determine the associations in the minds of secondary school 6th grade students about the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Secondary School Students, Grade 6, Social Studies
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Atabek-Yigit, Elif – Chemistry Education Research and Practice, 2018
Determination of the relationship between individuals' cognitive styles and cognitive structure outcomes was the main aim of this study. Sixty-six participants were enrolled in the study and their cognitive styles were determined by using the Hidden Figure Test (for their field dependent/independent dimension of cognitive style) and the…
Descriptors: Cognitive Style, Chemistry, Kinetics, Thinking Skills
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Palmer, David H. – Science Education, 1999
Describes a study that investigated whether scientific and nonscientific understandings in the same content area are linked. Finds that students' (n=107) explanations indicate that they were using an "if-then" type of reasoning which linked scientific and nonscientific conceptions. Contains 39 references. (Author/WRM)
Descriptors: Biology, Cognitive Processes, Cognitive Structures, Elementary Secondary Education
Schreiber, Deborah A.; Abegg, Gerald L. – 1991
This study presents a quantitative method for scoring concept maps generated by students learning introductory college chemistry. Concept maps measure the amount of chemical information the student possesses, reasoning ability in chemistry, and specific misconceptions about introductory and physical chemistry concepts. They provide a visualization…
Descriptors: Chemistry, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Structures, College Science
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Mariotti, Maria Alessandra – L'Insegnamento della Matematica e delle Scienze Integrate, 1992
Discusses geometrical reasoning in the framework of the theory of Figural Concepts to highlight the interaction between the figural and conceptual components of geometrical concepts. Examples of students' difficulties and errors in geometrical reasoning are interpreted according to the internal tension that appears in figural concepts resulting…
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Structures, Elementary Secondary Education
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Lubben, Fred; Netshisaulu, Tom; Campbell, Bob – Science Education, 1999
Explores African students' use of traditional Sotho cultural metaphoric reasoning in classifying everyday situations as "hot" or "cold" in order to document the extent to which such metaphoric reasoning is related to science misconceptions of heating. Finds that university students were able to distinguish between types of…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Cognitive Structures, College Students, Cultural Background
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Gil-Perez, Daniel; Carrascosa, Jaime – Science Education, 1990
Discussed is a constructivist model of science learning and its possible use in the treatment of science misconceptions. Science learning as conceptual and methodological change is described. (KR)
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Cognitive Structures, Concept Formation, Learning Processes
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Maria, Katherine – Elementary School Journal, 1997
Traces change in conception of gravity in a boy from kindergarten until second grade, focusing on the process by which persons restructure ideas that differ from accepted scientific understandings, and acquire scientific ideas. Provides criteria for defining an alternative conception; suggests how conditions in the initial interview may have…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Structures, Concept Formation
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Guzzetti, Barbara J.; Williams, Wayne O.; Skeels, Stephanie A.; Wu, Shwu Ming – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 1997
Explores the influences of text structure on students' conceptual change. Case studies were conducted and results showed that individuals used refutational text to change their alternative conceptions and acquire new concepts. Findings indicate that refutational text does cause cognitive conflict. While refutational text is effective for groups,…
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes, Cognitive Structures
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Bailin, Sharon – Science and Education, 2002
Examines some of the misconceptions about the nature of critical thinking. Focuses on the characterization of critical thinking in terms of processes or skills and the separation of critical thinking and knowledge. Offers a different conception of critical thinking. (Contains 46 references.) (DDR)
Descriptors: Cognitive Structures, Critical Thinking, Curriculum Development, Educational Change
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Davis, Robert B. – Arithmetic Teacher, 1991
Examined is the situation in which pupils invent mathematics on their own and teachers' reactions to this situation. The assimilation of students' original ideas into correct mathematical concepts is discussed. (CW)
Descriptors: Arithmetic, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Structures, Computation
Tirosh, Dina; Graeber, Anna O. – Focus on Learning Problems in Mathematics, 1990
Discussed are preservice elementary teachers' misconceptions and inconsistent beliefs about multiplication and division with decimals. Sources of inconsistencies and recommendations for overcoming inconsistencies are included. (KR)
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Arithmetic, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Structures
Behr, Merlyn; Harel, Guershon – Focus on Learning Problems in Mathematics, 1990
Discussed are some situations students face that result in cognitive conflict, possible sources of these conflicts, and strategies which students use to resolve, remove, or circumvent them. A global account for observed systematic errors is offered based on a general problem-solving rule called the "Matching Rule." (KR)
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Dissonance, Cognitive Structures
Wilson, Patricia S. – Focus on Learning Problems in Mathematics, 1990
Described are inconsistencies, definitions, and examples and their complex relationship which can be used to interpret students' reactions to the geometric tasks used to investigate inconsistencies in student thinking. Discusses the nature of definitions, the value of precise vocabulary, the use and limitations of prototypes, and the power of…
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Dissonance, Cognitive Structures
Draper, Steve; And Others – 1989
This paper aims to clarify and describe the process of change in learners' conceptual understanding of natural phenomena. It begins by reviewing the existing literature on models of conceptual change and on children's conceptions in a number of selected topic areas. Strategies for exploring and developing children's ideas in these areas have also…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Cognitive Structures, Computer Software, Concept Formation
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