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Mustu, Özlem Eryilmaz – International Journal of Progressive Education, 2021
Concept maps are used to assess and improve prospective teachers' conceptual understanding levels. In this research, the aim was to describe prospective science teachers' conceptual understanding of the atom by using concept maps. The research employed the case study approach, one of the qualitative research patterns. The research group consisted…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, College Seniors, Science Education, Nuclear Physics
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Karakaya, Ferhat; Yilmaz, Mehmet; Adigüzel, Merve – International Online Journal of Education and Teaching, 2021
Biology is a complex science that includes different subjects. As a result, misconceptions, confusion and misleading are common problems in biology education. In this study, it was aimed to determine the learning of pre-service science teachers about food web. The research, using the case study, was conducted in 2019-2020. The study group of the…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Undergraduate Students, Science Education, Scientific Concepts
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Subramaniam, Karthigeyan; Kirby, Benjamin; Harrell, Pamela; Long, Christopher – Electronic Journal of Science Education, 2019
The purpose of this exploratory qualitative study was to investigate prospective elementary teachers' conceptual understanding of buoyancy. Specifically, the study aimed to identify the scientifically accepted conceptions, and misconceptions that preservice teachers hold about buoyancy using an instructional intervention. Presently, there is a gap…
Descriptors: Concept Mapping, Preservice Teachers, Elementary School Teachers, Knowledge Level
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Kubsch, Marcus; Nordine, Jeffrey; Neumann, Knut; Fortus, David; Krajcik, Joseph – EURASIA Journal of Mathematics, Science and Technology Education, 2019
Modern science standards emphasize knowledge-in-use, i.e., connecting scientific practices with content. For knowledge to become usable in knowledge-in-use performances, students need well organized knowledge networks that allow them to activate and connect sets of relevant ideas across contexts, i.e. students need integrated knowledge. We…
Descriptors: Grade 7, Energy, Science Instruction, Knowledge Level
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Nawani, Jigna; Kotzebue, Lena; Rixius, Julia; Graml, Michael; Neuhaus, Birgit J. – International Journal of Science and Mathematics Education, 2018
This study investigated the effects of teachers' use of "focus questions" on students' knowledge structures and classroom teaching-learning process by re-analyzing selected data from a quasi-experimental pre-post video study (Wadouh, 2007). Focus questions are content-related anchoring questions highlighting the key content taught in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Questioning Techniques, Teaching Methods, Biology
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Gourlay, H. – Physics Education, 2017
This paper describes a small-scale piece of research using concept mapping to elicit A level students' understandings of particle physics. Fifty-nine year 12 (16- and 17 year-old) students from two London schools participated. The exercise took place during school physics lessons. Students were instructed how to make a concept map and were…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, High School Students, Secondary School Science, Knowledge Level
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Bain, Kinsey; Towns, Marcy H. – Journal of Chemical Education, 2018
The concept of energy is of central significance, as it is a core disciplinary idea in chemistry and a cross-cutting concept in the sciences. This study sought to investigate student understanding of energetics and associated thermodynamic functions in chemical reactions and processes across a sample of introductory-level undergraduate chemistry…
Descriptors: College Students, Chemistry, Knowledge Level, Thermodynamics
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Nadaraj Govender; Bekele Dega Gashe – Journal of Baltic Science Education, 2016
Current research in physics shows that pre-service teachers have poor content knowledge in vector-kinematics. This study describes the types of categories of conceptions pre-service teachers display in vector-kinematics. Descriptive and interpretive qualitative research was conducted in which the data were concept maps from 28 third-year…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Science Teachers, Physics, Knowledge Level
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Finnegan, Lisa A.; Dieker, Lisa A. – Science Activities: Projects and Curriculum Ideas in STEM Classrooms, 2019
The need for all students to develop a stronger ability to express their science knowledge in writing is important. In this article, the authors take you on a journey in an elementary school classroom with tools to help foster deeper learning and stronger writing skills in science content. With many students in high school required to pass…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Elementary School Science, Science Instruction, Concept Mapping
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Anzovino, Mary E.; Bretz, Stacey Lowery – Chemistry Education Research and Practice, 2016
Organic chemistry students struggle with multiple aspects of reaction mechanisms and the curved arrow notation used by organic chemists. Many faculty believe that an understanding of nucleophiles and electrophiles, among other concepts, is required before students can develop fluency with the electronpushing formalism (EPF). An expert concept map…
Descriptors: Organic Chemistry, Concept Mapping, Scientific Concepts, Molecular Structure
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Burrows, Nikita L.; Mooring, Suazette Reid – Chemistry Education Research and Practice, 2015
General chemistry is the first undergraduate course in which students further develop their understanding of fundamental chemical concepts. Many of these fundamental topics highlight the numerous conceptual interconnections present in chemistry. However, many students possess incoherent knowledge structures regarding these topics. Therefore,…
Descriptors: Concept Mapping, Science Instruction, College Science, Undergraduate Students
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Cavlazoglu, Baki; Stuessy, Carol – Journal of Educational Research, 2017
The authors find justification for integrating science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) in the complex problems that today's students will face as tomorrow's STEM professionals. Teachers with individual subject-area specialties in the STEM content areas have limited experience in integrating STEM. In this study, the authors…
Descriptors: Science Teachers, Scientific Attitudes, Knowledge Level, Scientific Concepts
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Harrell, Pamela Esprivalo; Subramaniam, Karthigeyan – Electronic Journal of Science Education, 2014
This article details a study that investigated 55 elementary pre-service teachers' content knowledge about density. Using a mixed-methods approach, pre/post face-to-face interviews and pre/post concepts maps (Cmaps) were used as data to document changes in teacher knowledge which occurred over a 15-week science methods course. Thematic analysis…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Elementary Education, Scientific Concepts, Knowledge Level
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Majidi, Sharareh – International Journal of Science and Mathematics Education, 2014
Knowledge is not simply a collection of facts, principles, and formulas; instead, meaningful knowledge is organized around core concepts that guide peoples' thinking about a subject. Therefore, knowledge organization is recognized as an important component of understanding learning and teaching. In this research, knowledge organization of two…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, College Science, Pedagogical Content Knowledge, Knowledge Base for Teaching
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Cunha, Leonardo Rodrigues; de Oliveria Cudischevitch, Cecília; Carneiro, Alan Brito; Macedo, Gustavo Bartholomeu; Lannes, Denise; da Silva-Neto, Mário Alberto Cardoso – Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Education, 2014
We evaluate a new approach to teaching the basic biochemistry mechanisms that regulate the biology of Triatominae, major vectors of "Trypanosoma cruzi," the causative agent of Chagas disease. We have designed and used a comic book, "Carlos Chagas: 100 years after a hero's discovery" containing scientific information obtained by…
Descriptors: Biochemistry, Science Instruction, Diseases, Cartoons
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