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Peer reviewedTrumper, Ricardo – International Journal of Science Education, 1991
Experiences with an instructional strategy which enabled students to build for themselves the appropriate scientific concept for energy are described. This was done by pupil/teacher dialogue in small groups, in which students were expected to create for themselves a "generalization mechanism" based on their own frameworks. (KR)
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Concept Formation, Energy, Foreign Countries
Peer reviewedBar, Varda; Zinn, Barbara – Science and Education, 1998
Reports on research designed to discover whether certain conceptual difficulties experienced by present day students in the realm of action at a distance are parallel to the experiences of scientists in previous generations. Contains 60 references. (DDR)
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Concept Formation, Elementary Secondary Education, Foreign Countries
