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Teaching Future Teachers Basic Astronomy Concepts--Sun-Earth-Moon Relative Movements--at a Time of Reform in Science Education
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Trumper, Ricardo – Research in Science & Technological Education, 2006
In view of students' alternative conceptions about basic concepts in astronomy, we conducted a series of constructivist activities with future elementary and junior high school teachers aimed at changing their conceptions about the cause of seasonal changes, and of several characteristics of the Sun-Earth-Moon relative movements like Moon phases,…
Descriptors: Astronomy, Science Instruction, Preservice Teacher Education, Preservice Teachers
A Cross-age Study of Senior High School Students' Conceptions of Basic Astronomy Concepts.
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Trumper, Ricardo – Research in Science and Technological Education, 2001
Analyzes senior high school students' astronomy conceptions by means of a written questionnaire presented during the beginning of the first semester. (Contains 42 references.) (Author/YDS)
Descriptors: Astronomy, Concept Formation, Constructivism (Learning), Educational Change
A Survey of Biology Students' Conceptions of Force in Pre-service Training for High School Teachers.
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Trumper, Ricardo; Gorsky, Paul – Research in Science and Technological Education, 1997
Presents a study to determine whether biology students in preservice training to become high school teachers hold correct scientific views that will eventually allow them to plan and implement instructional strategies which in turn will lead their future students to achieve a correct scientific concept of force. (Author/DKM)
Descriptors: Biology, Force, Foreign Countries, High Schools
Applying Conceptual Conflict Strategies in the Learning of the Energy Concept.
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Trumper, Ricardo – Research in Science and Technological Education, 1997
Reports on a study that addresses the implications of instructional strategies that are used to create cognitive disequilibrations to achieve conceptual change. Discusses several difficulties in the application of such conceptual change strategies. Contains 31 references. (DDR)
Descriptors: Cognitive Psychology, Cognitive Structures, Concept Formation, Conflict
A Survey of Israeli Physics Students' Conceptions of Energy in Pre-service Training for High School Teachers.
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Trumper, Ricardo – Research in Science and Technological Education, 1996
Analyzes conceptions of energy of physics students' in a pre-service teacher training program. Findings indicate that the students are considerably anthropocentric in their associations, their choice of pictures, and their alternative conceptions and hold a number of different, alternative conceptions when describing physical situations. Contains…
Descriptors: Energy, Foreign Countries, Misconceptions, Physics