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Bastürk Kaya; Caner Aladag – International Journal of Modern Education Studies, 2024
The aim of this study was to determine the cognitive structures of high school students related to the atmosphere and climate. The study group consists of 70 students in the 10th grade of a state high school affiliated to Konya Provincial Ministry of National Education. In this study, a survey model, which allowed us to determine the current…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, High School Students, Climate, Weather
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Bahar Candas; Muammer Çalik – Journal of Biological Education, 2023
This study aimed to facilitate grade 8 students' conceptual understanding of 'sustainable development (SD)' via Common Knowledge Construction Model (CKCM)-oriented instruction. Through a pre-experimental research approach, the study was conducted with 31 grade 8 students drawn from a secondary school in the city of Trabzon, Turkey. A word…
Descriptors: Grade 8, Concept Formation, Sustainable Development, Secondary School Students
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Amna Ghani; Caroline Di Bernardi Luft; Smadar Ovadio-Caro; Klaus-Robert Müller; Joydeep Bhattacharya – Creativity Research Journal, 2024
Chance favors the prepared mind, said Louis Pasteur. Sometimes, significant breakthroughs occur when we creatively integrate new information, leading to a creative insight or an Aha! moment, while at other times when we fail to use a clue, we remain stuck in our habitual thinking patterns. In this study, we hypothesized that the brain's transient…
Descriptors: Brain, Brain Hemisphere Functions, Cognitive Processes, Intuition
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Aysegül Derman; Figen Gunes; Ozcan Gulacar; Ingo Eilks – Chemistry Education Research and Practice, 2024
This study aims to determine the cognitive structures of students at different educational levels (8th grade and 12th grade) related to acid-base chemistry. The research was designed as a case study and structured in two stages. The first stage analyzed concepts related to acid-base chemistry and their direction and strength in students' knowledge…
Descriptors: Chemistry, Science Instruction, Cognitive Structures, Grade 8
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Ural, Alattin – Journal of Educational Issues, 2020
The purpose of this research is to identify prospective mathematics teachers' conceptual structure about the concept of "Integral". In this research, phenomenology design, one of the qualitative research designs, was used. A total of 35 prospective mathematics teachers, studying at a state university, participated in the research. The…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Concept Formation, Mathematical Concepts, Associative Learning
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Eka Ariyati; Herawati Susilo; Hadi Suwono; Fatchur Rohman – Pegem Journal of Education and Instruction, 2024
The perceptions of students who study environmental science related to pollution are certainly different because they are influenced by various circumstances. These circumstances, among others, depend on what they observe around them and their prior knowledge. This study aimed to determine the concept of pollution according to the cognitive…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Teacher Education Programs, Prior Learning, Cognitive Structures
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Karaman, Burcu; Karakus, Ufuk – Participatory Educational Research, 2022
The aim of this study is to examine the cognitive structures of the secondary school students towards the concept of health. The study was carried out using the descriptive survey model, which is a research approach that intends to describe a past or present situation as it is. The study group of the research was determined by maximum diversity…
Descriptors: Secondary School Students, Cognitive Structures, Health, Concept Formation
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Ahmet Tasdere; Mehmet Fatih Kaya – Science Education International, 2023
The aim of the study was to investigate the effect of the Common Knowledge Construction Model (CKCM) on 10th-grade students' conceptual understanding of the buoyancy and density of liquids topic. Within a pre-experimental (one group pre-test/post-test) research design, this study was conducted with 22 of 10th-grade students. To collect data, the…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Scientific Concepts, Concept Formation, Grade 10
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Wu, Ching-Lin – Creativity Research Journal, 2022
Remote association, the ability to form new relations between independent elements, was assessed using the Remote Associates Test (RAT). The Chinese RAT (CRAT) includes the Chinese radical RAT (CRRAT), Chinese word RAT (CWRAT), and Chinese compound RAT (CCRAT). Behavioral research indicates that an individual's performance on the CRAT reflects…
Descriptors: Brain Hemisphere Functions, Correlation, Chinese, Associative Learning
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Ürek, Handan; Dolu, Gamze – Gifted Education International, 2020
The aim of this study was to determine the conceptual structures of exceptionally talented students about chemical change through the use of word associations. The study was conducted with 13 exceptionally talented students in seventh grade who were attending a science and art center located in a province in western Turkey. Data were collected…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Academically Gifted, Associative Learning, Grade 7
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Nakiboglu, Canan – Chemistry Education Research and Practice, 2023
The topic of physical and chemical changes is one of the basic and essential issues of both the lowersecondary school science curriculum and the upper-secondary school chemistry curriculum in many countries. The focus of the present study is to investigate the students' cognitive structures on the topic of physical and chemical changes at…
Descriptors: Chemistry, Science Instruction, Secondary School Students, Cognitive Structures
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Nacaroglu, Oguzhan; Kizkapan, Oktay – Journal of Science Learning, 2021
Epistemological beliefs can be defined shortly as beliefs about the source, certainty, organization of knowledge, and beliefs on ability and speed of learning. Word association tests (WAT) are practical alternative assessment and evaluation tools that can reveal students' thoughts on different concepts. In this regard, this research aims to…
Descriptors: Academically Gifted, Children, Adolescents, Beliefs
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Yildirir, Hasene Esra – International Journal of Research in Education and Science, 2020
The purpose of this study was to determine the state of secondary school students? cognitive structures about argument and related concepts and to reveal the change in their cognitive structures regarding these concepts after the implementation of the argumentation-oriented approach in science lessons. This study was conducted in Grade 6, 7, 8…
Descriptors: Secondary School Students, Cognitive Structures, Persuasive Discourse, Science Instruction
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Schmäing, Till; Grotjohann, Norbert – Education Sciences, 2021
This paper presents students' word associations with terms regarding the Wadden Sea. A continuous free word-association method was used in which the students from secondary schools (n = 3119, average age: 13.54 years) reported their associations with the stimulus words "Wadden Sea," "mudflat hiking tour," and "tides"…
Descriptors: Associative Learning, Stimuli, Vocabulary, Ecology
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Gulacar, Ozcan; Milkey, Alexandra; Eilks, Ingo – EURASIA Journal of Mathematics, Science and Technology Education, 2020
Chemistry is traditionally perceived as difficult to comprehend. Its mastery requires that a variety of concepts be linked to form an organized knowledge system. The connections need to be made not only between the concepts associated with the macroscopic level of the chemistry triplet but also between the submicroscopic and symbolic levels. Many…
Descriptors: Chemistry, Science Instruction, Knowledge Level, Mastery Learning
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