The goal of science education interventions is to nurture, enrich, and sustain children's
natural and spontaneous interest in scientific knowledge and procedures. We present …

The field of astronomy education is rapidly growing beyond merely sharing effective
activities or curriculum ideas. This paper categorizes and summarizes the literature in …

Mental models are personal, internal representations of external reality that people use to
interact with the world around them. They are constructed by individuals based on their …

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

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) …

Knowledge representation is fundamental to the study of mind. All theories of psychological
processing are rooted in assumptions about how information is stored. These assumptions …

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

In this article we describe the development, analysis, and interpretation of a novel item
format we call Ordered Multiple-Choice (OMC). A unique feature of OMC items is that they …

We describe the main principles of the framework theory approach to conceptual change
and briefly report on the results of a text comprehension study that investigated some of the …

In this paper we provide a psychological account of the nature and development of
explanation. We propose that an explanation is an account that provides a conceptual …