As students learn biology at different levels of education, their tenacious and inaccurate prior
conceptions pose a challenge to conceptual change. Educators and researchers have …

Scientific misconceptions are ubiquitous, and in our era of near-instant information
exchange, this can be problematic for both public health and the public understanding of …

En los últimos años se ha generado un interés especial por la investigación sobre las
emociones epistémicas. Este estudio tiene como objetivo conocer la incidencia de las …

Refutation texts, rhetorical tools designed to reduce misconceptions, have garnered
attention across four decades and many studies. Yet, the ability of a refutation text to change …

Whereas some evidence exists that math anxiety may interfere with math performance from
the very beginning of primary school, no study to date has attempted to investigate whether …

Critical thinking and strategic processing have become ubiquitous both in the educational
research literature as well as practice. However, neither of these constructs has had …

There is extensive literature focusing on students' misconceptions in various subject
domains. Several conceptual change approaches have been trying to understand how …

Background Previous work has identified that the benefits of learning with videogames and
learning from simulations. However, recent meta‐analytic work has also identified that little …

Misinformation around scientific issues is rampant on social media platforms, raising
concerns among educators and science communicators. A variety of approaches have been …

We investigated knowledge and attitudes before and after reading refutation texts
augmented by different kinds of persuasive information and how emotions mediated the …