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Huinan Liu; Bo Chen; Kai Chen; Yanting Jing – Journal of Chemical Education, 2023
The diversity of scientific methods has received increasing attention in the field of science education. This paper aimed to investigate how preservice chemistry teachers perceive scientific methods and their diversity. Based on the theoretical framework of Brandon's Matrix and previous research, two tasks (i.e., Task 1 "understanding of the…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Knowledge Level, Scientific Methodology, Diversity
Yasuda, Jun-ichiro; Hull, Michael M.; Mae, Naohiro – Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2023
We aim to graphically analyze the depth of conceptual understanding behind the Force Concept Inventory (FCI) responses of students, focusing on three questions (questions 1, 15, and 28). In our study, we created and implemented subquestions to clarify and quantify the students' reasoning steps in reaching their responses to the original FCI…
Descriptors: Scientific Concepts, Concept Formation, Misconceptions, Visual Aids
Emre Savas; Aysel Kocakulah – Science Insights Education Frontiers, 2025
This study aims to investigate the effect of the teaching model developed for hot conceptual change on middle school 7th-grade students' understanding of the Nature of Science (NOS) aspects. In this qualitative and exploratory study, activities were carried out with 24 students of two classes in a village school in the South Marmara region using a…
Descriptors: Scientific Principles, Scientific Concepts, Concept Formation, Grade 7
Elfriede R. Holstein; Maria Theobald; Leonie S. Weindorf; Garvin Brod – Child Development, 2025
We investigated the role of children's conflict monitoring skills in revising an intuitive scientific theory. Children aged 5 to 9 (N = 177; 53% girls, data collected in Germany from 2019-2023) completed computer-based tasks on water displacement, a concept prone to misconceptions. Children predicted which of two objects would displace more water…
Descriptors: Children, Conflict, Task Analysis, Foreign Countries
Kevin King – English in Education, 2025
This paper provides educators a foothold in the tricky terrain of metaphor, its theoretical underpinnings and pedagogical possibilities. Metaphor provides us with a means of comprehending domains of experience that do not have a preconceptual structure of their own. Conceptual metaphors permit mental imagery from sensorimotor domains to hold sway…
Descriptors: Figurative Language, English Teachers, High School Teachers, College Faculty
Tichenor, Seth E.; Constantino, Christopher; Yaruss, J. Scott – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2022
Purpose: This article presents several potential concerns with the common usage of the term "fluency" in the study of "stuttering" and people who stutter (or, as many speakers now prefer, "stutterers"). Our goal is to bridge gaps between clinicians, researchers, and stutterers to foster a greater sense of…
Descriptors: Language Fluency, Stuttering, Language Usage, Classification
Schroeder, Noah L.; Kucera, Aurelia C. – Educational Psychology Review, 2022
Scientific misconceptions are ubiquitous, and in our era of near-instant information exchange, this can be problematic for both public health and the public understanding of scientific topics. Refutation text is one instructional tool for addressing misconceptions and is simple to implement at little cost. We conducted a random-effects…
Descriptors: Misconceptions, Persuasive Discourse, Meta Analysis, Text Structure
Jacobson, Neil G.; Thacker, Ian; Sinatra, Gale M. – Discourse Processes: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2022
Refutation texts are designed to facilitate the revision of inaccurate knowledge; however, studies have documented backfire effects wherein respondents become less accurate when exposed to a factual correction compared to another. Here, we explored whether epistemic emotions mediated knowledge revision or backfire processes when reading…
Descriptors: Text Structure, Psychological Patterns, Misconceptions, Knowledge Level
Subramaniam, Karthigeyan; Long, Christopher S.; Harrell, Pamela Esprivalo; Khan, Nazia – Journal of College Science Teaching, 2022
This study investigated the stability and persistence of prospective elementary teachers' conceptual understanding of average speed. A questionnaire containing two questions about average speed was administered to the prospective teachers prior to their admission to an elementary science methods course (pretest) and at the end of the course…
Descriptors: Knowledge Level, Elementary School Teachers, Preservice Teachers, Pretests Posttests
Hadinugrahaningsih, Tritiyatma; Rahmawat, Yuli; Suryani, Elma – Journal of Technology and Science Education, 2022
This article describes a study of 149 preservice chemistry teachers' misconceptions of concepts related to a reduction-oxidation reaction. A mixed-method approach was used to obtain data through the ROXCI (Redox Concept Inventory) instrument and interviews. Result indicated that the highest misconceptions were for item number 10 (4.03% or only 6…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Misconceptions, Scientific Concepts, Chemistry
Rodgers, Ben – Primary Science, 2022
When any object, such as a glass of water, a greenhouse or the Earth's atmosphere, stays at a steady temperature, the amount of energy entering the object is equal to the amount of energy leaving it. This is considered in equilibrium. This equilibrium changes when the amount of energy entering does not equal the amount of energy leaving.…
Descriptors: Elementary School Science, Science Instruction, Climate, Energy
Parks, Beth; Benze, Hans – Physics Teacher, 2022
Student misconceptions of the double-slit experiment (Fig. 1) are abundant. The most common ones that we observe include: (1) belief that constructive interference requires both pathlengths to be integer multiples of the wavelength ("L[subscript 1] = n[subscript 1][lambda]" and "L[subscript 2] = n[subscript 2][lambda]") rather…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Scientific Concepts, Physics, Science Experiments
Ferstl, Andrew; Duden, Emily R. – Physics Teacher, 2022
The conical pendulum is a classic introductory physics problem for teaching circular motion--a topic about which students frequently carry alternative conceptions. As teachers provide lessons to untangle these conceptions, it is good to allow students to practice their new knowledge in varied settings. This is one possible experiment that builds…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Motion, Mechanics (Physics), Scientific Concepts
Tan, Elaine; Carnegie, Sarah – Innovations in Education and Teaching International, 2022
This study documents the development of an assessment (a multiple-choice test with free text rationale) built into an academic skills module over a 2 year period. Initially introduced as a credit bearing assessment to promote student engagement, disappointing results in the first year prompted a further intervention in year 2 with an additional…
Descriptors: College Students, Foreign Students, Plagiarism, Knowledge Level
Helmsing, Mark E. – Curriculum and Teaching Dialogue, 2022
In this research, the author shares findings from a study of how national fantasies about the United States are imagined and expressed in the curriculum and pedagogy of a U.S. high school civics course. Focusing on specific classroom moments, the author considers how both the teacher and her students racialize the national fantasies that appear…
Descriptors: Racism, Civics, Secondary School Curriculum, High School Students