This study sought to determine what elementary teachers know about student science
misconceptions and how teachers address student misconceptions in instruction. The …

Bu çalışma, basıncın sıvıların kaynama sıcaklığı üzerine etkisini öğretmede öğretmene
rehberlik edecek bir çalışma yaprağı geliştirmek amacıyla yapılmıştır. Çalışmanın başlangıç …

Teaching and learning chemistry or science, in general, could be described as building
upon learners' existing conceptions. In order to support individual conceptual development …

This study explores secondary school students' understanding of evaporation and
investigates whether students associate the concept of evaporation with only water as a …

Background Research on chemistry education has found that students have commonly
some difficulties in understanding chemical changes. These difficulties in the learning …

Literature on science conceptions research and field investigations was used to probe
alternative conceptions of primary school pupils. Theoretical studies from the literature have …

Forty-two academically gifted and thirty-two average-achieving elementary students in
grades one through six were interviewed to determine ideas concerning fossil fuel energy …

This study examines the existing knowledge that pre-service elementary teachers (PSETs)
have regarding heat energy, heat transfer and insulation. The PSETs' knowledge of heat …

This article describes the design of a misconception diagnostic test about fire-related
phenomena. It proposes a new test format in which a certainty-measuring tier has been …

This study focuses on the misconceptions of eighth-grade students in the Arab sector
compared to the Jewish sector regarding the conservation of mass during combustion in a …