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Boo, Hong-Kwen; Toh, Kok-Aun – Research in Science Education, 1998
Fourth-year university students (n=12) in a secondary-science-education degree program in Singapore were interviewed after demonstrations of five familiar chemical reactions. The majority of interviewees used perceptually-dominated rather than conceptually-dominated thinking and were unable to use scientific concepts consistently across the five…
Descriptors: Chemical Reactions, Chemistry, Cognitive Development, Concept Formation