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 …

Just-in-Time Teaching (JiTT) is a teaching and learning approach that combines the best
features of traditional in-class instruction with the communication and resource potential …

What ideas do children hold about the naturl world? How do these ideas affect their learning
of science? When children begin secondary school they already have knowledge and ideas …

There is now a large body of research which examines students' misconceptions in a variety
of science subject areas. A problem exists, however, in applying the findings of this research …

Conceptual change research investigates the processes through which learners
substantially revise prior knowledge and acquire new concepts. Tracing its heritage to …

A 15-item two-tier multiple-choice diagnostic instrument was developed to evaluate
secondary students' ability to describe and explain seven types of chemical reactions using …

The term conceptual change was introduced by Thomas Kuhn (1962) to indicate that the
concepts embedded in a scientifi c theory change their meaning when the theory (paradigm) …

We examined the intersection of students' understanding and acceptance of evolution and
their epistemological beliefs and cognitive dispositions. Based on previous research, we …

Conceptual change research investigates learning requiring the substantial revision of prior
knowledge and the acquisition of new concepts, usually under conditions of systematic …

In recent years there has been considerable interest in misconceptions held by students of
science. There are several ways for obtaining information about student's knowledge …