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Balta, Nuri; Japashov, Nursultan; Abdulbakioglu, Mustafa; Oliveira, Alandeom W. – Physics Education, 2020
Student cognition in response to intuitive and counterintuitive stimuli in the school science curriculum is not well understood. To address this issue, this study examines high school students' cognitive responses to three counterintuitive physics problems. Our analysis reveals that student success in arriving at counter-intuitive physical…
Descriptors: High School Students, Science Instruction, Secondary School Science, Physics
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Dawson, Vaille; Venville, Grady Jane – International Journal of Science Education, 2009
The aim of this research was to explore Australian high-school students' argumentation and informal reasoning about biotechnology. Data were obtained from semi-structured interviews with 10 Year-8 students (12-13 years old), 14 Year-10 students (14-15 years old) and 6 Year-12 students (16-17 years old) from six metropolitan high schools in Perth,…
Descriptors: Persuasive Discourse, Biotechnology, Foreign Countries, Scientific Literacy