This study has reviewed the last two decades of student conception research in solution
chemistry pertaining to aims, methods of exploring students' conception, general knowledge …

This paper presents a survey and analysis of research related to the development of
concepts of matter. It is proposed that the clarity with which pupils understand the distinction …

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 …

This study identified a number of conceptions of solubility elicited from grade 11 students in
individual interviews. These conceptions were grouped into six categories related to the …

This study focused on the development of a two-tier multiple-choice diagnostic instrument,
which was designed and then progressively modified, and implemented to assess students' …

Providing model‐based accounts (explanations and predictions) of water and substances in
water moving through environmental systems is an important practice for environmental …

One-to-one interviews were administered to a sample of twenty female primary student
teachers (PST), who were studying at the University of Cyprus. They were asked to describe …

In this article, we examine first‐year chemical engineering students' conceptions of the
energy changes taking place in dissolution. Students were individually interviewed with …

Submicrorepresentations (SMR) could be an important element, not only for explaining the
experimental observations to students, but also in the process of evaluating students' …

Adopting a neo‐Piagetian conceptual framework and a phenomenographic approach, we
identified students' conceptual progression pattern on matter from elementary to high school …