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Download full textClement, John – 1987
Reviewed are findings on misconceptions in mechanics and their instructional implications. Many misconceptions are widespread and resistant to change but students have useful intuitions and reasoning processes that could be used more fully. One strategy for dealing with misconceptions is described. It stresses anchoring intuitions, analogical…
Descriptors: Analogy, College Science, Concept Formation, Higher Education
Rice, Diana C.; And Others – 1991
In order to take into account in a more productive, effective manner children's prior science knowledge in the development of science curricula and in the teaching of science, it is important "to know how to explore it, to know about its nature, and to consider the various ways it may, or may not be modified" (Gilbert, Osborne, and Fensham, 1982).…
Descriptors: Area, Cognitive Ability, Cognitive Style, Elementary Education
