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Showing 1 to 20 of 59 for “"conceptual change"”.
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Achieving Conceptual Change Using a Differentiated Instructional Approach
… and correct misconceptions, ultimately achieving conceptual change. Teachers must take into account who they are teaching. When students enter the classroom, they each have different skills, experiences and interests. It is the teacher’s responsibility to adapt the content and learning environment …
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Implicit Learning in Science: Activating and Suppressing Scientific Intuitions to Enhance Conceptual Change
… about scientific phenomena, and subsequently, in conceptual change. Decades of research in learning science demonstrate that a primary challenge of science education is overcoming prior, naïve knowledge of natural phenomena in order to gain scientific understanding. Until recently, a key …
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Conceptual change in students’ understanding of genetics within the students-as-producers approach
… with a discussion of different perspectives on conceptual change in science education, and alternative conceptions in genetics in particular, before moving on to analysing engaged learning, dialogic learning, technology-enhanced learning, and the students- as-producers approach. The primary aim …
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An exploration of what determines teacher pedagogy in the context of conceptual change in science
… using as a context lessons intended to achieve conceptual change. To achieve this change, teachers look to move their pupils’ understanding of key ‘big’ scientific ideas toward versions nearer to those accepted as accurate by the scientific community. As one of the three fundamental goals of …
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Examining the Role of Executive Functions and Motivation in Conceptual Change in a Physics Task
… in favour of more scientific ones is known as conceptual change. The process might involve a combination of both higher-order cognitive skills and motivational attitudes of students, but few studies have explored all three together. The current study examines the role of executive function …
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Exploring foundation phase learners’ understanding of a healthy environment through conceptual change and collateral learning strategies
… Foundation Phase (Elementary School) learners conceptualised a healthy environment, and whether or not instruction based on the classical cognitive conflict conceptual change model would differ from an approach based on collateral learning theory in educating grade three learners about a …
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Beginning Algebra Student's Conceptual Understanding Of Variables In The Context Of Solving Equations: A Conceptual Change Inquiry.
… aims to illuminate novice algebra student’s conceptual understandings of variables, solving equations, and the juxtaposition of the two. The goal of this study is to design a curricular intervention for a beginning Algebra 1 course and document, analyze, and interpret conceptual changes …
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The Effects of a Discourse Community Model on Promoting Intentional Conceptual Change to Increase Understanding of School Climate and Its Importance
Framed within intentional conceptual change theory, this study looked at the effects of a discourse community model on promoting intentional conceptual change to increase understanding of school climate and its importance. A highly-motivated group of 11 teachers from one elementary school …
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Conceptual change and science achievement related to a lesson sequence on acids and bases among african american alternative high school students': ateacher's practical arguments and the voice of the "other"
… Common Knowledge Construction Model (CKCM), a conceptual change inquiry model of teaching and learning, on African American students' conceptual change and achievement; (2) observe the shift in teacher's practical arguments; and (3) narrate the voice of "the Other" about teacher professional …
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Motivating science learning
Dual-processing theories of conceptual change hypothesize that if children are more personally involved in a lesson they will process the information more deeply leading to more and stronger conceptual change (Dole & Sinatra, 1998). This study tests this theory by increasing personal involvement …
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The Nature of Knowledge Change Among Students in a Peer Leadership Course
… design for studying the nature of knowledge change. Knowledge change—as defined for this dissertation—is an exploration of the quantitative and qualitative change in how knowledge is used over a period of time. Knowledge change is derived from the broader scholarship on conceptual change; …
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The nature of dissection: Exploring student conceptions
<p>The model of conceptual change in science describes the process of learning as a complete restructuring of knowledge, when learners discover or are shown more plausible, intelligent alternatives to existing conceptions. Emotions have been acknowledged as part of a learner's conceptual ecology, …
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The effect of self-explanation and metacognitive scaffolding on learning web programming
… the second study recruiting 21 college students. Conceptual change could be proved by the ratio of principle-based explanations. It was also significantly associated with the learning performance in transfer tests. The studies suggest that the self-explanation strategy can be an effective means to …
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The development and evaluation of a computer-assisted strategy designed to change student misconceptions about chemical equilibrium
… was designed in accordance with a model of conceptual change proposed by Posner, Strike, Hewson & Gertzog (1982). The CAI package consists of eleven modules. The conceptual change strategies, as implemented in the package, mainly used simulations to create cognitive conflict to assist …
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College teaching preparedness : contributions of graduate student experiences
… contributed significantly to teaching efficacy. Conceptual change/student focused approaches, for both lecture and discussion class styles, contributed significantly to teaching efficacy. Positive affective states and conceptual change/student-focused (lecture) significantly influenced teaching …
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Making sense of making sense: A microgenetic multiple case study of five students’ developing conceptual compounds related to physics
… that science: ‘doesn’t make sense’. Different conceptualisations of learning are analysed leading to the development of the concept of making sense as the formation or modification of a conceptual compound in which concepts are related in a coherent causal system that may be transferred to …
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The Effects of Handheld Network Service "Look" on the Acquisition of Common Ground
… common ground and the associated convergent conceptual change is critical to cooperative work and learning. Convergent conceptual change is achieved as participants in a conversation update common ground through presentations, repairs, and acceptances of utterances. People employ available …
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Investigative Learning in an Undergraduate Biology Laboratory: an Investigation into Reform in Science Education
… by focusing on how students developed their conceptual understanding of a biological species. A model for learning was posed based on learners working in small groups. This model linked a sociocultural approach to teaching and learning to conceptual change theory. Qualitative research methods …
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Microcomputer-based diagnosis and remediation of simple Aristotelian alternative conceptions of force and motion
… teacher and the student are unable to detect and change these conceptions, the student's ability to learn may be seriously impeded. A solution to this instructional dilemma would be to devise a method which a teacher could use to determine whether such naive models, or alternative conceptions, are …
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