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Stern, Florian; Kampourakis, Kostas; Huneault, Catherine; Silveira, Patricia; Müller, Andreas – Education Sciences, 2018
Research in developmental psychology has shown that deeply-rooted, intuitive ways of thinking, such as design teleology and psychological essentialism, impact children's scientific explanations about natural phenomena. Similarly, biology education researchers have found that students often hold inaccurate conceptions about natural phenomena, which…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Biology, Misconceptions, Scientific Concepts