Research on personal epistemologies has begun to consider ontology: Do naive
epistemologies take the form of stable, unitary beliefs or of fine-grained, context-sensitive …

Çoğu öğretmen, öğrencilerini temiz zihinsel yazı tahtası olarak düşünür ve bu boş tahtayı
doldurmak için rol üstlenir. Bu yaklaşımdaki problem, tahtaların boş olmadığı, zaten onların …

In this long-awaited book, Timothy J. Lensmire examines the problems and promise of
progressive literacy education. He does this by developing a series of striking metaphors in …

A large body of research in the conceptual change tradition has shown the difficulty of
learning fundamental science concepts, yet conceptual change schemes have failed to …

Bu araştırma, ısı ve sıcaklık konusundaki kavram yanılgılarını ortaya çıkarmak amacıyla
yapılmıştır. Bu amaç doğrultusunda ısı ve sıcaklık kavram testi geliştirilmiştir. Bu test, 2001 …

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' …

Knowledge of the natural sciences is constructed to explain objects, phenomena, and their
interactions in the natural world. With time, scientific ideas or concepts become connected …

Chapter 5 examined major areas of criticism of the tradition of work often labelled as
'constructivism in Science Education'. Among these were suggestions that research in this …

In the late 1980s, a video was released which took on something of a cult status in the
science education community. This video, A Private Universe (Sadler, Schneps, & Woll …

A range of challenging activities centred on evaporation and condensation were explored
with year 1 and year 6 children. Their explanations in group discussion, written responses …