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ERIC Number: EJ545187
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 1997
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Reference Count: 0
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ISSN: ISSN-0036-8326
Readiness To Change the Conception That "Motion-Implies-Force": A Comparison of 12-Year-Old and 16-Year-Old Students.
Palmer, David H.; Flanagan, Ross B.
Science Education, v81 n3 p317-31 Jun 1997
Explores whether older students were less ready than younger students to change their alternative conceptions. Findings indicate that after reading a refutational text, conceptual change occurred in 35% of Year 6 students and 44% of Year 10 students. Concludes that there was no evidence to suggest that conceptual change is more difficult for older students. Contains 30 references. (Author/JRH)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Elementary Secondary Education, Foreign Countries, Misconceptions, Motion, Physics, Science Instruction
Publication Type: Reports - Research; Journal Articles
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Language: English
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Identifiers: Alternative Conceptions; Australia; Conceptual Change