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Download full textTürksever, Ömer – International Education Studies, 2021
This research, which was conducted in order to reveal the cognitive structures of high school students regarding the concept of energy through the word association test, was designed in a survey model. Word association test was used as a data collection tool. After the necessary information was given to the students, they were given three minutes…
Descriptors: High School Students, Cognitive Structures, Concept Formation, Misconceptions
Direct linkJelicic, Katarina; Planinic, Maja; Planinsic, Gorazd – Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2017
Electromagnetic induction is an important, yet complex, physics topic that is a part of Croatian high school curriculum. Nine Croatian high school students of different abilities in physics were interviewed using six demonstration experiments from electromagnetism (three of them concerned the topic of electromagnetic induction). Students were…
Descriptors: High School Students, Logical Thinking, Physics, Secondary School Science
Derman, Aysegul; Eilks, Ingo – Chemistry Education Research and Practice, 2016
Understanding students' cognitive structures in a specific knowledge domain helps to determine the ''what, how and why'' features of such knowledge, so that we can take these structures into consideration in teaching. The purpose of the present study was to identify students' cognitive structures about solution and dissolution concepts. The study…
Descriptors: High School Students, Chemistry, Science Instruction, Cognitive Structures
Brijlall, Deonarain; Ndlovu, Zanele – South African Journal of Education, 2013
This qualitative case study in a rural school in Umgungundlovu District in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, explored Grade 12 learners' mental constructions of mathematical knowledge during engagement with optimisation problems. Ten Grade 12 learners who do pure Mathemat-ics participated, and data were collected through structured activity sheets and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, High School Students, Problem Solving, Calculus
Fardanesh, Hashem – Online Submission, 2006
Conceptual change as the foundation of meaningful learning is discussed and applied to the change in the context of cultural issues among high school students. Cultural issues are envisioned as the repertory of internal cognitive structure of individuals that shapes the foundations of their attitudinal and behavioural functioning. Each one of the…
Descriptors: Cognitive Structures, High School Students, Models, Questionnaires
Griffiths, Alan K.; Barman, Charles R. – 1992
The substantial interest exhibited in the last decade in the identification of students' misconceptions of a wide range of scientific concepts has not extended to identification of students' misconceptions of the nature of science itself. This study examined the attitudes of 32 secondary school students, each from Canada, the United States, and…
Descriptors: Beliefs, Cognitive Structures, Concept Formation, Foreign Countries
