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Direct linkTsoi, Kwok-Ho – School Science Review, 2013
This study investigated the level of understanding among student teachers in differentiating lepidopterans. It adopted a constructive approach to promoting conceptual change in students on the issue of animal classification by generating cognitive conflict. Most of the students used inaccurate morphological traits for identification, such as wing…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Scientific Concepts, Misconceptions, Student Teachers
Peer reviewedSchmidt, Hans-Jurgen – School Science Review, 1998
States that the shift in meaning of the Periodic Table to represent regularities in the electron distribution in the shells of atoms can result in confusion between elements and atoms. (DDR)
Descriptors: Atomic Structure, Chemistry, Classification, Concept Formation
